Aldi

Yay! Love that can get my fix of European chocolate here as they have German brands (now if only they would also stock Belgium and French, that would’ve awesome!)
It’s a huge parking lot and yay! First signage we saw was that Aldi was not accepting credit card payment! Big WOOT!
I was impressed by the vanilla ice-​cream we purchased –only 4 ingredients (cream, milk, sugar, vanilla) and actually when got home, there was one in the freezer from Whole Foods with Gums and Carrageen’s so you know where I plan to now go shopping for ice-​cream from! But not everything is clean and good ingredients — I went to look at the pie crust and there it was full of artificial stuff so avoided that. Avacadoes and bananas plus other fresh vegetables was a great price, and had organic options. As another con, there is no whole milk organic option — the organic milk is only skin or 2%.
I was also really pleased at check-​out responsiveness. The line was getting a bit long, so they opened up another check-​out. Will def return for certain items!

I don’t know what I thought an Aldi had but I don’t feel like this was it. There wasn’t really anything there I wanted to buy. I do think their idea of making you put a quarter in a cart to use it is a genius idea to get their carts back. I also can appreciate the push for people to use their own bags. But I just don’t see much need to return here except for when their produce goes on sale, like their avocados.

Great store. I don’t need name brand cereal or big expensive stuff when it comes to the basics. Very no-​frills, you even have to bring your own bags (which I do anyway). Decent produce and decent general selection of items.
I know I’ll be saving a lot here.

I love it you can be in out and love the prices most of all. It’s a really neat store. I just hope it stays there.

A new and welcome addition to Collierville! It’s across the street from the Walmart. Because it’s brand new, the store is very clean and the carts all work really well. All the merchandise is the Aldi house brand (but people say that they’re big name brands, rebranded under the Aldi brands). Their business model is to be extremely low-​frills in exchange for really really low prices.
I like going here to pick up staples like dried pasta, jarred pasta sauce, boxed cereals, chips/​cookies, yogurt, rice, beans, flour/​sugar, salt/​pepper, mayo. I’d definitely check it out, the price savings really add up (I think at least 20% less than Kroger/​Schnucks) and it’s totally worth the inconvenience of having to bag your own groceries or depositing a quarter for a cart.