Vaporstrike

One thing I learned about Aldi recently is that it and Trader Joe's are actually the same company. Which is interesting to me because Trader Joe's has always been the slightly more upscale place. Like it "cheaper" than other stores if you're not buying their store brands.

Anyway, it has an interesting history about two extremely cheapskate brothers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

The only problem I've had with Aldi (which might just be my local one) is the produce tending to go bad within a day or two. Fine if you plan to use it right away, but not so much if it might take a couple days to get to it. I used to shop there all the time because it was in walking distance, but now I'm on the other end of town where I can't walk to anything and Walmart is a closer drive. I don't even like Walmart, but it is sadly convenient.

They're also permanently understaffed and only have one lane open most of the time regardless of how busy it is, which seems weird when they're offering well above average pay for the area, and letting their cashiers SIT DOWN is a major benefit that I would think more people would want to take advantage of. It's possible this branch just thinks having a skeleton crew is fine, like the craft store I worked at, but they always seem to have job listings up. Weird.

Otherwise the reputation is purely the bougie view of The Poors. Same as the idea of buses being smelly and full of needles or whatever nonsense they've come up with this week.