As the Lady and I were leaving ALDI last Sunday we made one
final swoop back down the frozen foods into what I will graciously call the
bakery section. Perched high above the three racks of L’Oven breads was a
nearly empty box of single serve Baker’s Treat apple and cherry pies. A steal
at $.49 each and I wasn’t the only one who thought so – apple was sold out. If
there are two things I love it’s a bargain and pie. So into my shopping car…oh yeah
we gave our shopping cart quarter to some family that looked like they needed
it more than we did. Sometimes the Lady is a softie.
Side bar – for those of you unfamiliar with
ALDI one of the many quirky things about it is you need a quarter, a case
quarter, to get a shopping cart. You put a quarter into this manual contraption
that chains all the carts together and it lets you pop out a cart. The quarter
stays in the contraption until you return the cart to where you got it and then you
can get your quarter back out. It’s a fairly ingenious way to get people to
return the carts to the store. In fact, unlike Kroger, I’ve never seen a cart
rolling around in the parking lot.
But I digress…on with the review.
