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Sure it is. Bet I have at least 10 Aldi locations within an hour of me in Ohio. There are 2362 locations nationwide so about 45/state. I’d call that “pretty common”.”
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I’d say 3 percent is not “common”
I didn’t say I never saw it. I said it is not common. If it was, every metropolitan grocery chain would do it as opposed to having cart corrals and lot attendants.
I shopped at Aldi twice, didn’t buy anything, and don’t think I saw one celebrity or millionaire in the entire store.
It’s like telling someone from New Jersey that self serve gasoline is everywhere.
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We don’t have them in my town of 70,000+ which is 35 miles SW of Phoenix. We have 11 in the Phoenix metro but none in Scottsdale where I lived for 14 yrs, so they’re not ubiquitous here like Safeway or Fry’s (Kroger). They also close at 8 or 9 pm whereas every other major grocery store in the state closes at 11 pm.