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| - You MUST give Aldi a try! Some people may be intimidated by the fact that you have to "rent" your grocery cart, or that they don't carry every brand item you're accustomed to, and you pay for bags and bag your own item, BUT do not let that stop you! The savings can be well over 50% off every other grocery store around, if not more. A gallon of milk is usually less than two dollars. A carton of eggs is usually less than a dollar. Avocados often go on sale for less than $.49 a piece. This place is truly magic for your wallet. They have a great selection of organic products and lots of fresh caught frozen seafood. You will definitely find plenty of cost savings! Now for the logistics so you'll look like a pro on your first time: Bring your own reusable shopping bags! You can definitely buy a bag there for a nickel but why not save the environment and bring your own? Have a quarter handy to deposit into the line of carts to unlock one (don't worry, you'll get it back!) it's also common courtesy for you to hand your quarter directly to another customer who has just finished unloading the groceries in their car and take their cart inside. Your first aisle will be snack foods: chips, salsa, nuts, cereal, peanut butter. The back wall is where you'll find all your eggs, yogurt, dairy products, cheese, and a few meat products. The second aisle is baking goods and bottled drinks. On the other side of the aisle you will find A number of seasonal products that rotate out. Sometimes it's cookware other times it's organizers and usually in the summer you'll find some gardening equipment. In the third I'll you'll find all of your canned fruits and vegetables along with a few seasonal or leftover stock items that they put on clearance. Then comes the best part, the produce section. The produce is seriously so cheap! A pint of blueberries, BlackBerries, or raspberries will usually run you about $.99. In the next tile is a nice freezer section with a lot of premade items followed by your paper products and trashbags. Then in the last aisle you'll have your freezer section and all of your baked goods and bread. Now when you get ready to check out you'll be amazed by the speed of the cashier. They seriously check those items through at lightning speed. Your items will come out of your cart and onto the conveyor belt. Then the cashier will deposit them into another cart that the last shopper has left. Once your items are finished checking through you'll switch carts with the cashier and take your groceries over to the counter against the wall to bag them with the bags that you brought! Aldi now accepts all forms of credit cards and payments so no more worrying about whether or not you have to have cash on hand! Don't forget to bring your card back after you unload your groceries and use the mechanism to get your quarter back!
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