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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 18, 2024 22:43:11 GMT -5
The Salvation Army treasure hunters were here yesterday. They told me about some nic nacs they paid.50 for and sold them on eBay for hundreds of dollars
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Post by olmucky on Aug 20, 2024 4:33:06 GMT -5
So, my Gf decides she wants to go to the Goodwill store, which I'm thinking is rather odd as we have nothing to donate.. . so we pull up and I ask the question "what are we doing here"? She tells me shopping! SHOPPING??WTF???I don't shop at a goodwill! I almost broke the cameras so I couldn't be filmed.
She finally told me we needed things for our condo to rent out.
They had a lot of things but not anything I would buy but my bride found some coffee mugs and a picture. I was a little surprised at how many people were shopping there. I am not knocking that just wondering if it's a sign of a shitty economy (please don't make this political.)
The one on Gandy? That place is crazy. Did you see the bargain bin area?
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Post by olmucky on Aug 20, 2024 4:40:54 GMT -5
I first heard about Aldi from a guy at work. He was new to the company and was pinching pennies until he could build his follwing (sales). So myself and the GF decided to try it but weren't completely sold on it but was very impressed on the products and cost. We did a comparison shop on Aldi and Publx and were shocked that publix was 2-3 times the cost at Aldi and their products comparable or better. Now, we get most of our products from Aldi and Detwilers and a few things from Publix. Could we afford to only shop at Publix? Sure could. But It's hard to ignore the evidence. The Winn Dixie somewhat close to me is turning in to an Aldi (Aldi bought the whole parent company and most are changing to Aldi btw), will have to check it out when they do. Their produce and proteins are good? We try and do mostly fresh foods so that is what we buy most of. Mine as well I actually found WD to be more $ than Publix. Except the meat(I bought it discounted at wd). Veggies are a decent price. WD was good if you used yiur card and bought the stuff that was member discounted. But if not it’s $ We use TJ for many things. Eggs. Some meals for the boy. Fresh market for meat (they discount chicken and burger) Walmart delivery for staples. Looking forward to the Aldi, I’ve heard good things about the $
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 20, 2024 8:07:55 GMT -5
Aldi has quality products at a good price. We used to feed 50 customers every day after work in the afternoon For Free. So we would bargain shop for food. Very seldom disappointed with Aldi
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Aug 20, 2024 8:19:47 GMT -5
The only thing that keeps me from shopping at aldi is the checkout lines. I can deal with the stupid .25 cart thing, I can get around the bare bones layout. I can even deal with NOBODY around to help you BUT the four or five people deep check out lines is a deal breaker for me. YMMV
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Post by Mango Man on Aug 20, 2024 8:33:31 GMT -5
Hey Bo, it's the one un N US19. I've never walked into one until recently but this one was pretty clean.
Jerry, Ours has self checkout and manned registers. Never seems to get to bad. Sounds like you have a high volume store.
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Aug 20, 2024 8:46:18 GMT -5
yea, the one on Hillsborough, just west of our old winghouse hangout. Wish it had self checkout.
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 20, 2024 8:47:57 GMT -5
Aldis is ok. I like Lidl a lot better.
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Post by gardawg on Aug 20, 2024 10:02:21 GMT -5
when I was ten years old I lived in Los Angeles there were several 'junk stores' in the area. my mother and aunt loved to browse them so I went along. mostly just used goods. the best think I ever bought was a toy car. It weighed about 5 lbs. and it had a heavy flywheel for propulsion. It sat in a launcher with a crank attached to the flywheel and the rear wheels off the ground. When you hit the launch button the crank disengaged and the drive wheels hit the ground. I took it to the alley behind our apartment. When I got the flywheel going as fast as I could I hit the launch button and it took off down the alley. Where it hit several metal garbage cans and sent them spinning wildly. Mom came out and asked what was I doing. I showed her my car and she took it away never to be seen again.
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Post by restlessnative on Aug 20, 2024 11:26:43 GMT -5
The Winn Dixie somewhat close to me is turning in to an Aldi (Aldi bought the whole parent company and most are changing to Aldi btw), will have to check it out when they do. Their produce and proteins are good? We try and do mostly fresh foods so that is what we buy most of. Mine as well I actually found WD to be more $ than Publix. Except the meat(I bought it discounted at wd). Veggies are a decent price. WD was good if you used yiur card and bought the stuff that was member discounted. But if not it’s $ We use TJ for many things. Eggs. Some meals for the boy. Fresh market for meat (they discount chicken and burger) Walmart delivery for staples. Looking forward to the Aldi, I’ve heard good things about the $ It’s the same one on Swann, I’m a South Tampa guy too (Davis Islands). The parking at TJs is a deal breaker for me, really wish they had more as I would actually go over there every now and then if they did. We go to Sprouts quite a bit even if it is t super convenient just because they have better fresh foods and is less expensive than Publix. Looking forward to checking Aldi out.
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Post by olmucky on Aug 20, 2024 11:37:39 GMT -5
Hey Bo, it's the one un N US19. I've never walked into one until recently but this one was pretty clean. Jerry, Ours has self checkout and manned registers. Never seems to get to bad. Sounds like you have a high volume store. [ Ahhh that’s good. Some of them have a ‘scent’ about them.
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