Things you love for value and quality?

Things you suggest us to steer clear from?

1.49 gallon of milk unbeatable

What about butter for $1.99, I've read that their cheese / sliced cheddar, swiss, etc is made @ Sargento and marketed for Aldi.
Their $2.99 coffee taste as good as Starbucks.

Yeah, their cheese is great tasting! Also, you can't go wrong with their "Fit & Active" line of products. Our children go crazy for the cereal and the fruit snacks in that line.

I love their peanuts too. Great place to shop!

Ditto!!

They are able to do this because they have no bags?

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Originally posted by PEJ:
What about butter for $1.99, I've read that their cheese / sliced cheddar, swiss, etc is made @ Sargento and marketed for Aldi.
Their $2.99 coffee taste as good as Starbucks.

hmm...if this is true i may have to try it. However, when you say tastes as good, do you mean you enjoy it as much as Starbucks? or it actually has that Starbucks aroma? i'm quite the coffee drinker and the only coffee i have found similar in aroma is the new Wolfgang Puck coffee, and it's still 6 dollars a bag where as Starbucks is nearly 8. so if i could get that aroma for 3 dollars that would be a steal.

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Originally posted by HomesickGirl:
They are able to do this because they have no bags?

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The frozen Belgian cream puffs and the German coffee cake are great. The cake is cream, layer of coffee, layer of chocolate, etc. The ravioli is very good, also, as is the "Entenmann's" not really Entenmann's of course, coffee cake. The pasta sauce is good, and the Pilsner is fantastic beer, less than a dollar a bottle and from Saxony and follows the German Beer Purity Law. I would say it is as good as Spaten.

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Originally posted by HomesickGirl:
They are able to do this because they have no bags?

No Bags?

They have bags. You just have to pay extra for them. They also encourage you to use empty boxes you may find in the store.
Paper bags .06 cents
Plastic bags .10 cents
Canvas Tote 1.99 (these are quite large)
Or you can bring any old bags you may have at home.

We usually don't bother with sacks. Just take basket out to car, and empty into laundry basket or whatever. Sometimes we have plastic bags in trunk of car to put canned items in.

Oh did I mention their popsicles & ice cream

Grandessa Signature brand salsa. I think three different flavors, the Santa Fe Southwestern being my favorite. No preservatives added. Find it in the back of the store in the open cooler section.

I go to people watch. Oh, and the beer fried potato chips.

When they had a very good price on water chestnuts I stocked up on those and they are sooooo good!