Empty store shelves & self check-out at Aldi

I haven't seen many bare store shelves here in the last three weeks. Even the cat food shelves have been full of cat food for a change. Sure, if there is a good sale on something, the stores are sold out, but that is normal sometimes around here if you don't get there on sunday after the weekly sale fliers come out or after thursday when they get their shipments in. There is one thing we have been looking for but it is unavailable....Those tiny canned shrimp....I guess they have been having a problem getting them from Vietnam for some reason. We use them a couple of times a year to make shrimp dip to go on crackers. But one place on Amazon has them for fifty bucks for a case of four...ten bucks a can for shrimp that usually sells for around three fifty a can now.

For those of you that use olive oil, seems there is a reduction of olive oil of about forteen to sixteen percent and it will probably increase the price about twenty five percent or more in the near future. It already went up around thirty three percent over the last few years but this increase is because of the hot and dry in Italy and Spain and other countries which will add to the already skyrocketed prices. We only have five sixteen ounce bottles in stock, and we missed buying some when it was BOGO free a few weeks back at meijers.

a reply to: marg6043

Its the type of place you go before you go to the normal grocery store. They have great deals and good stuff most of the times but I always struggled to get all they stuff I wanted there. Luckily the one I used to go to wash like a few blocks from my normal store so hitting both wasn't inconvenient.

a reply to: ancientlight

I only use self checks that accept cash. I am more efficient using way less bags and faster. They are also an easy way for me to dump accumalated change coins. I usually shop at publix, local bodegas and winndixie/fresco y mas. There are about 5 specific prodicts only that I typically buy at walmart, three of them are meat and two are potato products. Just for the bulk savings with me having five kids n all.

Lowes and home depot also have these machines, i use the ones that take cash. When i occasionaly stop at CVS i will use their machines if they are accepting cash. Funny thing with CVS, sometimes they take cash sometimes they do not, the machines i mean.

Wondering what city in florida your in, aldi in tampa seems well stocked to me. I bulk up on canned goods with them, hard to beat those prices. They also have better prices on shelled sunflower seeds which I like to add to bowls, salads and an occasional wrap.

a reply to: rickymouse
I live less than a mile from a Vigo importing facility which packages the okive oil on site. I think maybe this helps keep pricing competetive in this area because i dont feel like i am paying unreasonable prices. I stick with vigo for now since its packahgd right here in Tampa and does not have to travel far.

It's time to start growing ammo

originally posted by: EmmanuelGoldstein
It's time to start growing ammo

That will be taxed. Long term storage illegal.

a reply to: beyondknowledge
Or just use a basket. That you can wash too with a few spray shot's of alcohol and a cloth, no washing machine needed.

They are more stable. Take more room during unnecessary transport though. Overall a lot better than bags of any kind

When I use the self checkout the cashier always slips some product for free, for the extra work I had to do.

It's cute how you all complain about how the system fu*$& you but you keep being a good sheep just complaining and always complying.

Thanks for making it extra easy to control you

Our local grocery store was out of Orange Juice today.

We don't mind using self checkout because we don't purchase that much seeing as how we are on foot.

Kind of a bummer about the juice today though.

Maybe next time.

I refuse to use self-checkouts because I want to interact with a human.
Those humans also need jobs.
I have never shopped at walmart either fwiw.
We have the power to stop things.
we should use that power sometime.

a reply to: ancientlight

Lots of times when I used a self checkout I had to push the 'help' button because something wasn't scanning, but I prefer it during summer months when most of the employees are students and work way to slow.

Empty shelves over here as well (Belgium), prices are about to go up again so people are stocking up food. Water as well, with the fear mongering about the drought and possible water shortage.

The thing is, supermarkets still can't find enough employees and those who've worked there for years are threatening to quit because of the workload. Most of them welcome the self checkout to shorten the lines

a reply to: DaRAGE

I went into "Next" to buy a pair of shoes for my brother-in-law's wedding.

After i paid for them the woman handed me the two shoes without a box and asked me if i would like a bag???!!!

I was mystified for a few seconds, im mean reduced packaging is one thing but shoes, well they come in boxes in Andy land or at least they did up until now. LoL

a reply to: v1rtu0s0

Just saw a vid where the CEO of an ammo manufacturer said that a third of the ammo shipped through UBI disappears. and in the comments, someone said that when they worked for UPS if they thought the package was ammo they should toss it. It was a bona fid vid.We are in some strange days.www.bitchute.com...

a reply to: xosephx
Personally, I prefer self checkout. It's faster.

I know two stores with self checkout (there are guaranteed more but i don´t care for that stuff and so i don´t notice them), one of them is the DIY store i often visit. At one suddenly they wanted to make me go through that self-checkout BS (where you at least could pay with cash and not only with a spyPhone) and i simply said no. The women didn´t stop trying to force me to use the self-checkout BS.

So i asked her loudly if their cashiers are happy about slowly losing their jobs and if i have to pay less because i do the job of a cashier for them. Big laughter and affirmative nods among the other customers who all refused to use that self-checkout BS. And a really puzzled Bauhaus-Lady who couldn´t find any fitting answer that wouldn´t cost her her job immediately and not only after the machines took over.

In the other shop, a supermarket, the self checkout is almost always empty too, only a few "i have nothing to hide"-hipsters love to spread their data everywhere they can. But hey, it´s their choice and they are free to spread their data as i am free to not do this.

originally posted by: RMFX1
a reply to: xosephx
Personally, I prefer self checkout. It's faster.

my wife likes using it.

i don't.

there is a couple places that have great big strong plastic bags for 50 cent, i always get at least 2 with my stuff.

good for trash or storage.

a reply to: RickyD

I do not think is as popular as places like sams, I use Sams only sporadically, never go to Wal-Mart, but my favorite place is Publix, I am more into organic products and they have a great assortment of them, but it comes with a price as usual. Eating healthy is more expensive, incredible.

The aldi store been build is quite big, cannot wait to see what they have, I would have preferred a Fresh Market, but in my area people are not into healthy eating, sorry to say this, but we are like 90% obesity in the area I live.

Switch to Lidl assuming you get the store there in the States.

Over here in the UK Lidl is same prices as Aldi yet quality is loads better. You can actually get the vegetables home without them going off on the journey home. Crumpets that don't turn radioactive green within an hour of buying them. Food that even though it looks like food actually tastes like food unlike that at Aldi.

There is something seriously iffy about buying anything at least over here from Aldi.

a reply to: ufoorbhunter

Aye there fruit and veg has indeed been known to come with some hairy armored little critters included.

Prefer Lidl myself over Aldi, or if im honest M&S, but you need a second mortgage to fill a basket never mind a trolly in that shop.