How Do Aldi Stores Keep Their Food So Inexpensive?
I remember as a child going to Aldi Supermarket with my mother to get our groceries. My mom worked very hard for many years, and deciding to stay home proved to be very difficult on our family finances. Aldi Supermarket provided some relief to our family’s grocery budget and it now provides relief to our own family’s tight budget as well. I often tell my friends and family that Aldi Supermarket is how I can afford to be a stay-at-home mom. Although I say this jokingly, I do credit Aldi a lot for allowing the room in our budget that we needed for me to be home with my son. My mom laughs at me praising Aldi at the top of my lungs because as a child I was completely mortified and embarrassed that our family had to shop there. I would pray that I would not run into a classmate, ironically who was probably shopping there for the same exact reason as our family, and felt such shame that we could not shop at “normal” stores like other families. Aldi is a very normal store, although it lacks m
In these hard times shopping at Aldi’s Food Stores (www.aldifood.com) makes good cents. And you will save dollars too, which is a good thing these days. When I was writing my first cookbook Carmela’s Cucina the food stylist that I was working with suggested that I shop at Aldi’s for some of the food items that we were going to need for the photo shoot. I was very skeptical, but one of my neighbors confirmed that the new store in town was a great deal and fun to shop. So armed with my own grocery bags and a quarter for a shopping cart, I made my first trip to Aldi’s and have been hooked ever since. This is no frills shopping, and I always have to make a stop at a full service grocery store to complete my grocery list, but the savings are significant, so it is worth the extra trouble. Aldi’s has it’s origins in Germany and many of their specialty items come from that country. Anything that I have tried from the chocolates to the stollan at Christmas have been excellent. A typical trip ta
