Heading tonight to a potluck dinner for Progressives in my small town. Since Mom and I are both going, I need to make two dishes. However, I’ve got so much going on with prepping for the estate sale and being the county Democratic committee chair, I don’t have a lot of time to cook, so I’m heating up a frozen sweet potato casserole and baking four apple strudels from ALDI which I’ll cut up into bite size pieces. If they don’t like it, well…oh well.

@TheRealDelia

That sounds fabulous and I love aldis apple strudel !

Thanks for doing this. 💙

@KazzyH It’s so good! I figure four of them cut up into pieces is enough for 30 or so people if there’s one or two others they can choose from. And if there’s some leftover, that’s fine with me. 😋

@TheRealDelia

Oh that's plenty! I'm secretly envious that you have an aldis not one in Maine! Tomorrow we head to southern maine so I'll hop over to NH and get some goodies. 😁

Thank you for giving so much help to the dems! You rock! 💙

@KazzyH @TheRealDelia

Major requirement to move to northern NJ. Had to have ALDIs.

However…

The line today to check out was halfway through the store. Huge issue no self check stands like in NC. Doesn’t seem to create more cashiers either.

When I complained to manager he said “This is New Jersey. They steal us blind. We can’t have self check.”

He was astounded 8 self check stands & rarely a human cashier in NC & PA ALDIs.

@LnzyHou @KazzyH Yikes! We have self checkouts at all four stores near me here in mid-Missouri.

We love ours so much! I’m going to miss it when we move to Spain.

@TheRealDelia @LnzyHou

Thats odd. They have self check out at my daughters aldis in Hunderton County. At least they did and everyone who works there is amazing.

Ah Spain though 😁 fantastic!

@KazzyH @TheRealDelia

So store mgr lied to me. Interesting

@LnzyHou @TheRealDelia

HOLD UP...

My husband just told me I'm thinking of SC so I might be wrong! I'll have to ask my daughter.

Also this is a rumor but I would love aldis in Maine

https://wcyy.com/aldi-grocery-store-opening-maine-coming-soon/

@LnzyHou @TheRealDelia

My son in law just texted me. They do have self check out. ( Aldis ) however they do not have winking owl wines. 🤷‍♀️ 🍷 like they do in SC

Also for the second year in a row orvis made a blunder and didn't send an online gift certificate to him. Geez.

@KazzyH @TheRealDelia

Lots of vegetarian options I bought in NC not available this NJ location.

Disappointing.

@LnzyHou @TheRealDelia

We never got to aldis yesterday ( nearby in NH ) while visiting MIL it took forever and then some to get there and I had getmeoutofthecaritis. I buy lots of pantry staples there.

I'm not sure about the availability of organics there my daughter does a lot of Wegmans and shoprite pick up orders for organics though so maybe that's the case there too?

@KazzyH @TheRealDelia

Not looking for organics but vegetarian. IE: cauliflower pizza only with pepperoni when it also comes vegetarian. Folks don’t seem to know that. Very few ready made salads etc