Aldi

Yes Aldo is cash or debit only. Selection can be limited and they are out of some items. But most of the time I can get a lot of items for a decent price. Can’t do all my shopping here but enough to make a trip every month or so.

I usually have to stop when I spot a new Aldi. This store has a lot of non-​food items too. The store is clean & neat but it also gets crowded when new shipments are being put away.

I love Aldi’s fresh fruit! The price is UNBEATABLE! And now that they guarantee the quality… I will definitely be back. My family keeps asking me where I got my grapes and oranges from… and they are the best! As for the rest of the store… it’s cheap. You find alot of off brand items… but it’s food!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get flowers for a friend’s baby shower from Aldi.
Difficulty: Easy
Difficulty with Aldi factored in: Rubik’s Cube
Step 1: Find store
Aldi is located in a strip mall, with a tiny little sign saying its name, so you can barely see it shoved between the Hard Times Café (that is three times as big as Aldi by the way) and the hardware store.
Step 2: Navigate
The place is literally designed like those cattle slaughtering lanes where all the cows are single-​file heading to their doom. There are three aisles, but you can’t move between them. You have to walk all the way to the end of an aisle (the length of the store) to get to another. That means if grandma is going like 1mph down the aisle, everyone behind her has to wait.
Step 3: Grab Item & Checkout
So I found the flowers right by the checkout counter. The counter is two feet from the door, but inaccessible without going through three aisles of cattle land. After getting through there, I pulled out my credit/​debit card (attached to a checking account), ready to pay. Beep! Wrong! They don’t accept credit cards, but they do accept debit. What? My card is both, why won’t they accept it? «Sorry, go next door and use the ATM,» the adolescent clerk tells me.
Step 4a: Find ATM
I go outside and check out the whole strip mall. No ATMs outside. I go in the hardware store. No ATM. I go in the dollar store. No ATM. I go into the other dollar store (there are two at this strip mall). No ATM. I go back inside Aldi, through the cattle chute, wait another ten minutes in line, ask the cashier where the friggin ATM is, and she says it’s inside Hard Times Café.
Step 4b: Find ATM for real this time
I ask the hostess at Hard Times Café if they have an ATM. She says they do, but she doesn’t know where it is. She comes back and tells me it’s in the back «near the games and stuff.» I go back near the games and stuff and use the ATM, which still uses a dial-​up modem.
Step 5: Purchase
So I go through the ridiculous cattle funnel again, wait in line again, and when I get to the counter to pay, I see my flowers are gone. Great. I grab another bouquet and wait in line again. Finally, I pay the $ 3 for the flowers and am on my way.
Operation «Do something your girlfriend asks you to do» complete!