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Aldi has a pretty good penetration in working class Chicago neighborhoods and unlike Whole Foods or Mariano’s that’s not new. I don’t know what it means to be
by kasey_junk 9y ago
Aldi has a pretty good penetration in working class Chicago neighborhoods and unlike Whole Foods or Mariano’s that’s not new.
I don’t know what it means to be a standard bearer of the working class for a grocery store but Aldis has for a long time gone places others don’t & more notably stocked the same stuff in those locations as their more well heeled locations. That’s fairly rare for a national (or even large regional) chain.
I’d add that I find the description of Aldis as dingy & lowlight not matching my experience now or in the past.
- tptacek 9y agoI don't know what those words mean either. I guess I would just push back on the idea that a criticism of Aldi is necessarily a criticism of grocery stores for the working class. Aldi in Chicago might be a west-side south-side thing? There aren't many south of Fullerton and west of Kedzie, but there are lots of grocery stores for black and latino markets, and they don't look (on the inside) that much like Aldi. Certainly I don't have a problem with Aldi. They're better than Dominicks was, and in some ways more admirable as a business than Whole Foods.
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- kasey_junk 9y ago(Shrug) the Aldis in Woodlawn was far and away the nicest grocery store in the neighborhood. I never noticed a tremendous difference between it and other grocery stores other than the “Moo & Oink” which was weird in its own special way.
- tptacek 9y agono shrugs we must litigate this to its full conclusion i'm getting in the car now