What you’ll find inside: All of the supermarket mainstays, from produce to fresh meat to dairy to canned goods to frozen foods, including cleaning products and paper goods, plus a constantly changing selection of general merchandise and housewares. And it’s revived the model the late, lamented A&P used to become America’s grocer in its heyday: rely on its own brands and price them low. This granddaddy of the deep discounters, founded in Germany in 1946, is on a drive to become the second-largest grocer in America by total store count. More than 45 locations throughout the Philadelphia region The Aldi storefront on Ridge Avenue, one of the newer additions to the area’s selection of cheap grocery stores. Here’s what you can expect when you go to each store. And while they have those similarities in common, they do differ in some significant ways. Two have been around for decades, two others are relative upstarts, and one sits in a class by itself. There are five major players in the no-frills, deep-discount supermarket sector in Philadelphia and environs. Just remember, you’re not here for the aesthetics, you’re here to save money. Most of these stores look like warehouses because much of what they sell is sold directly out of their packing cases, and in some cases, out of packing cases stacked directly on top of pallets. And at Aldi and Lidl, you’d better bring a quarter with you if you want a shopping cart: shoppers at those two stores must pay a 25-cent deposit to unlock a shopping cart which they get back when they return the cart to the store entrance and relock it. If you don’t bring your own bags, though, you can buy them at the store. They don’t bundle the cost of supplying bags into the shelf prices. But if you’re fine with frozen fillets and prepackaged lunchmeat, you’ll be okay.Īnother thing you should expect to do when shopping at these stores: Bring your own bags. Something else you won’t find at these stores is service counters: If you want your lunchmeat sliced on the spot for you, or your fish cleaned and filleted, you will get none of that. And you won’t spend so much money, for the prices are lower - sometimes much lower - than at the regular stores. They also limit their selection to the most-frequently-purchased items and sizes, with some variations from this norm.īut because of this, you won’t spend what seem like hours finding what you want, because the stores are much smaller than the typical supermarket.
In this world, you’re not overwhelmed by having to make so many choices, because there are fewer of them: the deep-discounters carry between 1,500 and 3,000 products in their stores, in sharp contrast to the 40,000 or more you will find at a typical supermarket. There is an alternative out there: the deep-discount supermarket.
Just standing in the cereal aisle can induce anxiety attacks. But when you consider the mind-boggling number of items on the shelves of your local supermarket, the time it takes to find all the items on your list, the stuff you put in your cart that wasn’t on your list, and how much you spend doing all this, the pain many feel when shopping for food is understandable. Many people find grocery shopping a chore. Inside the new Aldi inside the Broadridge apartment development, one of the region’s best cheap grocery stores.
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