ALDI — Attraction in Kettering

I love Aldi! The prices are awesome, the store is clean and well stocked, and the checkout is the fastest of any store I have ever been to. That said, shopping at Aldi is hit or miss. Selection is not a hallmark of Aldi. They have one brand of everything. If you don't like their beans, you better buy them elsewhere because there is no fall back brand. Because of this, you really can't shop just at Aldi. You have to pair it with one of the traditional grocers. Almost everything is generic or house label. Some of it is as good or in a few case better than the name brands. However a few products are just dreadful. You learn not to stock up on things without trying them first. My family loves Aldi's french cut frozen french fries. I would put them ahead of any other brand at about half of the price. Contrast that with their bologna that was so bad that I went back to the store a few weeks later to buy it again assuming I got a bad batch. I did not! Most products are as good or better than the store brands at any traditional grocer. Checking out at Aldi is amazing. The cashiers are friendly and the lines move extremely quickly! This is probably because they do not bag your groceries, nor accept coupons. They just count your items and you pay them. What a concept. I go to Aldi first, then fill in the holes at a more traditional store. It saves me a...

My wife and I went in to get a few things she needed to fix something at home for us. The store and it's employees are fine. That particular day, the CUSTOMERS were rude and self centered. They would just stop and leave their carts in the middle of the aisles to go look and pick. I would move a few of the carts left in the way and the customer would say, "Oh, excuse me" and I just gave them a "look".

We haven't bought any meat products at ANY Aldi store in a long time. Last time we did, the taste when cooked was not a pleasant experience. The lack of quality of meats isn't just from this store. It's ALL Aldi stores. Mind you, there are many customers who love their meat products so, maybe it is just a few of us who don't like their meats. Their produce is...

Great store. You never notice how awful some larger grocers are until you visit an alternative! It's a smaller store but they still carry just about everything I need, and it's always in stock. Plus the smaller store and parking lot shaves a LOT of walking time off a trip, I swear what takes ten minutes here takes forty elsewhere. They don't play music here either, no "Worst of the Eighties" drowning out every thought like every other store. They recently added self checkouts as well, which has cut down wait times to check out significantly. I went in today and the whole trip must have only taken ten minutes with no wait to check out. I won't be going anywhere else...