Discount-grocer Aldi to set up shop in Florida with 25 stores

Wife and I shop at the Aldi's in Sanford off of Hwy. 46. Great prices on Dairy, Snacks, Toilet Paper and frozen Meat. All great quality except for a box of Graham crackers...yuck! Store is VERY clean and well lit with LOTS of windows to let Sunshine in.

Chigger wrote:

What's with the $0.25 to use a shopping cart? Sounds like more of a hassle to adminster than it would be worth.

There is a slot to put your quarter in and it "unchains" it from the others in the front of the store. After you put your groceries in your car, you trudge back and put the cart into the others and get the quarter back. This is a good idea as it keeps the carts out of the parking lot and assures your car won't get damaged by runaway carts.

Check out the Aldi's in St Pete's there. The sale starts on Thurs down in FL but on Sun up in NYS.

Go to www.Aldi.com check out sales.

Any new aldi store coming any time soon near west palm beach, florida?

Great cheap beats out quailty once again. This is why this country has a high obesity rate, our people are extremely unhealthy, our pets are being picked off one by one from tainted food, our children our being killed by toxic products like toys, our young girls are developing earlier than ever, and we are losing our natural immunity.

People need to wake up! You can not put a price on putting good products in your body. Being cheap cost more in the end.

We need to get back to basics like buying our meats from good local meat markets (I like to get meats from Petty's in Longwood) and buying produce from local produce stands (I like to use Maters and Taters in Apopka). Doing this puts money in your local businesses, instead of a faceless international company like Aldi. Smaller places can also tell you more about the food, like where it was raised, grown, etc.

Buying certified organic when you can is always good too, that way there will be no steroids, hormones, antibiotics, or pesticides in your food. I also like the Whole Food Market chains as well, they have many quaility products.

All you moaners. Take a look at the peaches,nectarines,plums @ Publics and others.
You pay at the best
100 a pound..2 peaches make a pound @ Aldis you pay by the peach .29Cents,,,,Do the math and see what you save and a better quality fruit..Try it you'll like it....Oh I forgot...Honey dew melon @ >99 cents and blueberries @.099 cents...Go ahead pay the rip off prices I will go to Aldi's and save..

I live in West Palm B. and have missed the prices of the Aldi's stores since we have moved to here. My husband and I look forward to when they will have one close enough to where we are to actually shop in an Aldi's store. But for now the closest one is an hr. away, and it's only opening on the 2nd.? of Sept. and I can't quite remember the name of it, as I only saw it once, and I can't get the store locator to bring that up again as my zip code is apparently too far away for it to register. It's an hr. away, and my husband sometimes has to go down to Hollywood Fl, for work reasons, which means it would be hopefully on the way home, but I can't get it to be brought up again, so am stuck as to the actual new opening location is, the spelling begins with a Cass ? something, burg? don't know the actual name. But when we are able to find it out, I do hope to be able to shop there at least for the dry goods. The cereal prices alone, are a real bargin compared to what one sees in your regular stores. I have seen the bread prices jump from what use to be around about 35 cents a loaf to right up to a dollar almost, i.e. 89cents . The fruit is usually fair too in prices. I really miss the prices as the stores where we are have higher prices overall . I am glad for this forum, so wish we could email the store proper, and share comments that way, but they don't seem to have that kind of contact and I so regret that they don't. I have had many times that I would love for them to know what I think, but haven't been able to get word to them other than through their cashiers . If anyone knows of the way to get through to them other than just regular mail it sure would be nice to know how ! Many thanks for this opportunity to write.

Just so you know, not just liberals shop at Aldi's. Where I came from the people there would be so kind as to leave a quarter in the carts so the next person could use the little they had to get groceries they needed. Often the people in the parking lot would trade a quarter for a cart so they wouldn't have to unlock and get a new one. They do change their products from time to time, and also they have had great prices and the specials I wish they would have longer and in all of their stores, as in their pasta, from Germany, that has less carbs per package than that of the regular pasta ! Since I have to watch my carbs and I do like pasta I miss the low carbed pasta that they have carried in their store, but only on a limited basis. It's something that I would purchase more of but only have had opportunity to do so when they had it available. The newer stores are cleaner, and usually in better shape than the older ones, and some of them have had a face lift too. The area of their stores has been in both nice neighborhoods, and those that have been known to need a bit more of a watch dog, guard, which they do have, just not always visible. So for those who are like me looking forward to a new store, I do hope they can get closer to where I live rather than being an hr. away, not all of this area in West Palm is so fancy, there are places of need too.But they do have a monopoly of the Publix's stores in this area for sure.

vicky mauri wrote:

Any new aldi store coming any time soon near west palm beach, florida?

//Glad to know that I am not the only one who wants to see an Aldi's here in West Palm B. Look forward to when they will have one,but for now much prayer is needed to direct one to be here. I have told the cashiers in IN, that they need to build one here . But they only said something about one in Orlando, and that's really too far to shop for groceries. I saw the other day about one just north of Ft.Lauderdale, Fl, and that's close to an hr. away. Wish that I could remember the name of that new place opening up on like the 2nd? of Sept. At least one could get their dry goods from there. The fresh food would have to have a cooler to stay good though.

Robs0N wrote:

@ChrisK1249 & Lewis
First of all I didn`t say ALdi is only for People with small budgets... for normal stuff like milk, butter and so on Aldi is perfect!!
But try finding things like "Sardellen" (don`t know the english word) or good peperonis and so on.
And I do think, you can compare Aldi to the other Food Discounters in Germany, LIDL offers the same quality as Aldi and is as cheap as Aldi. Most of my Food I buy in a LIDL Store.
But you are right, Aldi and the others work with brand sellers and let them produce high amounts of there Food as a no name products, to guarantee a good quality and give the customers a good price.
Whats really wondering, is that such a concept is so new to america. It can`t be that all americans are so dependent from brand articles and combine cheap food with low quality. Explain it to me american friends :D
Greetings...

The only concept that I know of that is new, is the way the shopping carts are used, I don't know of any other store that has you 'rent' a cart for the time that you have need of it. Some people are so kind as to leave their quarter in the cart so the next one doesn't have to put their quarter in it, and so that little kindness is passed on to others. The quality, varies I think but will have to agree that it does seem sometimes the quality at Aldi's has been a little under par, don't you know that you can let the cashier know that and they will be happy to exchange it for a better product of the same providing of course that there is one available .

Maj wrote:

PLEASE build an Aldi's in the Fort Myers area. I love this store. I find that their brands are better than the brand names.

Regarding brand quality vs store quality, I agree, their store brand if it doesn't equal that of the name brand certainly exceeds the quality of the name brand. I do hope that West Palm B. also gets to have a store close by. My aunt use to live in Ft. Myers many years ago, and I don't know if she has had opportunity to shop in an Aldi's at all. She's now out West in the desert cities. So much in need there too.

Joe wrote:

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Yet I'm sure you gladly would welcome an Ikea or shop there. Same concept.

Contrasts of stores, please keep in mind that the Ikea is a totally different kind of a store,i.e. furniture from all over the European continent it would seem. Aldi's is a grocery store. Two different kinds of stores altogether. I have been in both stores, and the bargin basement of Ikea so to speak is filled with a variety of household goods, and kitchen wares, etc. that might be possible to purchase if they had enough to go around for all that one might want to get. But the concept of Ikea is different than that of Aldi's so please keep them separate.

We have and Aldi store across from a Walmart Superstore. I use to go to Walmart once a week, now I go once a month. I love Aldi. It is especially great for a one or two person household and saves me much money on groceries.

Surprise folks. Aldi Brothers own Trader Joe's.
They guarantee their products are as good or better than the highly advertised so called name brands.
No carts to damage your car in the parking lot. You insert a quarter and get it back when you return the cart. Too difficult for you?

Now just back in Fl, and miss the Aldi's stores already. I do hope that West Palm B. will be in their future marketing area. The new stores that are in Fl, are not near where we are. do hope that others here in West Palm realize this too. T.C.

Back in FL, and miss Aldis especially at this time of the year. All of those specials, and the low carb foods that are possible. But one must know where to look ! Hope that West Palm Beach will one day have an Aldis here that we can reach and make good use of for all of those wonderfully low prices. In the meanwhile Dollar General does help. Blessings, T.C.

Rose Lee wrote:

We have and Aldi store across from a Walmart Superstore. I use to go to Walmart once a week, now I go once a month. I love Aldi. It is especially great for a one or two person household and saves me much money on groceries.

We have too many of the Publix stores here, and yes several of the Super Wallmarts too. Would love to be able to shop at the Aldi's but they don't have any that are close by to make it worth the trip. West Palm Beach has a lot of good things, but low prices are not one of them unless you hunt down at the other stores.