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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What I'm always stunned by, who is fucking stupid enough to shop there?! I go to the pharmacy, get my shit, leave. Even when I had a fat income, I still wouldn't pay those prices.

Locally, the Winn Dixie is shutting down because the new Publix out competed them. For those not in the know, both are very nice groceries, with Publix a little nicer and way costlier. FFS, we have an Aldi (along with 5 other cheaper groceries) and it's never as busy as the expensive stores.

Hit a couple of big box stores waiting on my wife. Never go in those places anymore, especially since inflation went nuts the last couple of years. People pay for that crap?! At Pets Mart a chunk of driftwood is between $20 and $50! Y'all, we're in Florida, paying for driftwood and sand. The mind boggles.

tl:dr; American consumers are idiots and I'm not going to hear the whining about high retail prices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

we have an Aldi (along with 5 other cheaper groceries) and it’s never as busy as the expensive stores.

That might also be related to the fact that Aldi tries to be very efficient with its operation so they might handle more customers but those customers aren't stuck in the store as long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Germans know how to run an efficient grocery, I hope Aldi, trader joes and lidl destroy "thin margin" US parasites.

JFC fuck Kroger, fuck Safeway fuck expensive shit

Food is the common man necessity and it should be priced as such. We surely as fuck subsidize it, but the parasitic class still charges "market"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, don't get me wrong. Aldi's owners still very much got rich off it (they are among the richest people in Germany) so they are not great in that respect either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I ain't here to bootlick the owners but their operations are respectable in the area of price gouging leeching.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Like the shoplifters won't make bogus accounts? Wtf are we even doing here?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

How about I just shop somewhere else?

There's not a good reason to do this.

Any money saved by preventing thefts in our dying world will be lost from the customers who don't want to be treated like thieves.

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