Grocery Bill

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  1. Thomas Stearn

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    No, I don't. Our cupboard is nearly always bare. We don't eat that much. :D My weight is 165 lbs.

    But seriously, I'm lucky to buy most of my food at ALDI discount store, which is good quality at reasonable prices. I could easily spend more if I did my shopping elsewhere. Almost any other grocery store would be more expensive. I don't want to buy cheap at all costs, though. I regularly watch our food tests but ALDI (your Trader Joe's) often gets the best results.

    I don't think that I spend less on food than everybody else here. As I said, the total bill is like $500 a month.
    Come to Germany. It's really a great country.:D:p
     
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    @Thomas Stearn -- we also have Aldi; it is sort of a scaled-down version of Trader Joe's where you have to bag your own groceries and "rent" a market basket for 25 cents. :D I agree that the quality of Aldi's merchandise is excellent.

    I suppose I should add the cost for grocery delivery to my cost estimate since I haven't been to the store in many months. There is a $5 "shopper fee" per order and I tip the delivery person a minimum of $5 per order. (Larger tip for larger order or cases of bottled water, etc.)
     
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  3. Hedi Mitchell

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    Do not like Aldi at all. Not over here anyway. But you enjoy!
     
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    In this case you'd better not come to Germany because you don't get your groceries bagged in ANY grocery store nationwide. :D And you will have to "borrow" a cart for even $1 in any supermarket. Germans don't want their food items to be touched by anybody.;) Walmart tried to offer that service but failed miserably which was good fodder for economists all across the country who used it to explain the cultural differences between Americans and Germans.
     
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    May I ask why not?
     
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    @Thomas Stearn
    I have tried numerous times at Aldi because so many seem to like it.But the foods are tasteless, bread is not fresh feeling or looking, not crazy about store layout. Mainly the quality of the foods.
    Bagging..you have to bag your own in most places now. I don't like having to do it with the messed up hands and arms but I do it. I bag better than they are taught anyway;)
     
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    Bagging does seem to be a lost art. One of my first jobs was working in the produce department of the grocery store with occasional duty as a bagger. That was an art form that time was spent on. Most of the baggers today have NO idea how to bag.
     
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    They tried that in one of our two grocery stores here. Most everyone began shopping at the other one, instead. Toward the end, they tried reversing that policy and bagging groceries in plastic bags again but the move was too late. Although both grocery stores had coexisted across the street from one another here for decades, less than a year after one of them began making people bring their own bags, it went out of business.
     
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