On 26 Feb 2008 03:42:42 GMT, "Dan Goodman" > wrote:

>Rainbow and Cub -- which the Minneapolis Star Tribune still sometimes
>refers to as "the low price leaders" -- _sometimes_ have _some_
>products at lower prices than the two Aldi stores in the area I've been
>to.

We don't have Rainbow here, but we did have Cub. They closed up and
Ultra has taken over some of the stores. When Cub was here it was
better than Aldi, and Ultra now blows Aldi away.
>
>> Some people in this group just love Aldi. I think it's the bottom of
>> the barrel, but to each their own I guess. It also might have
>> something to do with what other stores are available.
>
>The upmarket chains -- Lunds/Byerlys and Kowalskis -- do have higher
>quality than Aldi on a fair number of things. But Cub and Rainbow
>don't, with a few exceptions.

It must be a market area thing. Better quality is available at most
places here.

>I don't know about Supervalue; I react to them the way some people here
>react to Aldi, haven't been in one for maybe ten years.

I'm one with a negative reaction to Aldi, and I was shocked when
Louise went to one.

>The co-ops also have higher quality than Aldi.

Any ethnic market here has better quality.

Lou