Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
*places saucer of milk and some treats out a short distance from Peenville’s front door and waits patiently and calmly*
Achtung! Chicagotonians
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Theodore
I gotta move
Story checks out.
ps Lotta sidewalk watering going on here. No solidarity with our dry friends whatsoever.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
People moving to Tuskon always ask if we have Aldi on the local Reddit and I’m think…..nah bro we got Food City instead…..then I *spits*Appr the invite peen but i still don't think i can do any two way socializing yet. Just people getting aggravated with me for being a slow country dufus. If I said much more I'd have to go to the mental health thread. You'll hear from me eventually. Probably.
Ran afoul of the harwood heights aldi canadian quarter scam today. Calling neighborhood scout to get HH colored dark blue.
Motorik
Kick Henry Jackassowski
They were blessed with a visit from stoner 'Backpack Santa'. He putzs about in your car for a few minutes in an aimless fashion and then leaves a backpack, before riding off on his jackalope with the weed leaf air freshener around its neck.
If they store their weed in the backpack it will magically grow in amount.
Theodore
I gotta move
you know we're goin to food city, gonna have some food.
they don't seem comparable, ddbob.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
School me on Aldi…. In my mind it’s a cross between Wally mart and Trader Joe’s….seems to have the Trader Joe’s cult following
Theodore
I gotta move
German, small, streamlined. Most of them seem to be made for display but lot of stuff is just stacked in the shipping carton. They have some good stuff but they don't have 50 varieties of yogurt and it's mostly store brand. No bags and you put a quarter in a slot on the cart to unlock it. You leave your cart at checkout and the cashier puts the next person's stuff in the cart. If a hardened criminal is in front of you, or in front of the person in front of you who doesn't have a cart so you don't see them and can't mount a search, you get a canadian quarter back when you lock their cart.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
so basically it's Ikea but for food and they hate content creators (If Aldi was here when Jackass originally aired there would be no Jackass because they wouldn't have had a shopping cart to use for stunts since Steve-o woulda needed the quarter back to buy crack)
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
When I was a kid and my Mom took me to Aldi.... even though the other grocery stores either had price tags that they would sticker on every box and can, or they had moved to bar codes... Aldi would just put a sign up on the shelf (the way stores do now days) but the cashiers had to memorize the prices of everything in the store
When I say these cashiers were cranking through... even now days with the scanners, they aren't even CLOSE to how fast these crazy cashiers were just tap-a-tap-tap-a-toss...tap-tap-tapa--toss.... item after item. I'm sure there were mistakes made plus or minus a dollar or two... but they were really inexpensive compared to the bigger chains, mostly because of their limited stock, so it was the place my mom would stock up on the stuff that she would have on basement shelves (because that generation liked having two month's worth of canned food items available at a moment's notice).
yabba
Weird Pick Butt Person
Every (modern) Aldi that I've ever been to has the fastest cashiers I've ever encountered; I wonder if it's a heritage thingWhen I was a kid and my Mom took me to Aldi.... even though the other grocery stores either had price tags that they would sticker on every box and can, or they had moved to bar codes... Aldi would just put a sign up on the shelf (the way stores do now days) but the cashiers had to memorize the prices of everything in the store
When I say these cashiers were cranking through... even now days with the scanners, they aren't even CLOSE to how fast these crazy cashiers were just tap-a-tap-tap-a-toss...tap-tap-tapa--toss.... item after item. I'm sure there were mistakes made plus or minus a dollar or two... but they were really inexpensive compared to the bigger chains, mostly because of their limited stock, so it was the place my mom would stock up on the stuff that she would have on basement shelves (because that generation liked having two month's worth of canned food items available at a moment's notice).
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Two carts for every boy.
Theodore
I gotta move
Not really.
I guess it has some TJ similarities but I've never been to one and thought "hey, this is like TJ/Aldi." Oh, and the cashiers get to sit down.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
There's a green Ford van in my neighborhood like the one behind the phone booth...thought it was a one of custom job but apparently Ford offered this shade of green from the factory
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
MonkeyZero
Mexican Mayonnaise Weiner Sandwich
I'm having Manny's corned beef sandwiches and latkes for dinner tonight...in Florida.
MonkeyZero
Mexican Mayonnaise Weiner Sandwich
I often wish I was still there. Best city or place I've lived out of the 8 places I have lived so far in my life.
I was telling a co-worker about my Manny's tonight and then described the eat-a-thon I have to go on when I get back to Chicago.
Potbelly's
Superdawg
Portillo's
Al's
Manny's
Lou Malnati's
The indian place I forgot the name of
The 3am burrito joint
The Ethiopian restaurant we used to go to
And on and on.
And not just food. neighborhoods, people, shops, all of it.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Just makes me sorry about climate change with it so early this year.