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The Aldi's on our side of our nearby city is usually crowded, and with the narrow aisles, and slow shoppers like me, the traffic can get held up. I suppose if I was still healthy and active, it wouldn't bother me as much, but it isn't a store that caters to the disabled in the least. My first time shopping there, I didn't know till checking out that I would have to pack up my groceries myself in make-shift boxes, buy bags or bring them yourself which of course I hadn't done! The only way to buy fruits was a bag of mixed fruit. You couldn't just buy apples. You had to get a bag with apples, oranges, and maybe pears or grapes. That is where I had a problem with a lack of selection. The weekly ads mostly feature non-food items that I would certainly not go to a discount grocery store to find! Most of what they sell of that type of stuff has never been on my shopping list at all in my entire life!
The average income in the area as shown by a website called Best Places, Income and Salaries for Erie PA
- The average income of a Erie resident is $18,877 a year. The US average is $28,555 a year.
- The Median household income of a Erie resident is $33,007 a year. The US average is $53,482 a year.
As you can see with the above stats, any discount store is going to get mobbed. I have seen lines at my local thrift store and it's one cash register would be 20-30 people long. People are POOR in my area. The Erie big Salvation Army and Goodwill thrift stores are generally very busy as well. However, I did notice in the last month or so that the GW prices have really jumped. I have no clue where the rich folks shop as I'm not rich and so don't shop at the rich stores and I need little that the grocery stores, WM, thrift stores, CVS can't provide for me.
A few years ago we had a new discount grocery store open in our area as well called Price Right near the Aldi's in Erie. My son and I decided to check it out. Yet again a crowded store, but what I noticed were the prices. Many people seem to be math impaired so they don't notice prices so much as the fact that it was a discount store. A lot of happy folks there, but a couple that was right behind me at the end of the maze - NO reversing directions due to the crowd - and I started chatting with them. Neither of us had anything in our carts. They had found they were not impressed with the prices as well. The prices weren't that good and for many items, when you considered that package weight was different than how the same type of thing would be packaged in places like WM, and in real cost wasn't any less than WM. At least at WM you know if you pick up a can of Campbell's tomato soup it will be the same size can as you would find in any regular grocery store. But the discounts may have what looks like the same size as a can, but the volume/weight is less, so even with the discount price you are getting less in the can and a bit less in cost, but if you are thinking that it will go as far, it won't.
I haven't been able to shop at Wegman's for years as it isn't located conveniently - wish I could as it has lots of items you can't find elsewhere plus a marvelous bakery. I love grocery shopping and used to be hugely into coupons, checking for loss leaders, sending in for rebates, etc. I had no need to go to discount grocery stores as I could do better shopping at a regular store. Boy, do I miss those days.
The average income in the area as shown by a website called Best Places, Income and Salaries for Erie PA
- The average income of a Erie resident is $18,877 a year. The US average is $28,555 a year.
- The Median household income of a Erie resident is $33,007 a year. The US average is $53,482 a year.
As you can see with the above stats, any discount store is going to get mobbed. I have seen lines at my local thrift store and it's one cash register would be 20-30 people long. People are POOR in my area. The Erie big Salvation Army and Goodwill thrift stores are generally very busy as well. However, I did notice in the last month or so that the GW prices have really jumped. I have no clue where the rich folks shop as I'm not rich and so don't shop at the rich stores and I need little that the grocery stores, WM, thrift stores, CVS can't provide for me.
A few years ago we had a new discount grocery store open in our area as well called Price Right near the Aldi's in Erie. My son and I decided to check it out. Yet again a crowded store, but what I noticed were the prices. Many people seem to be math impaired so they don't notice prices so much as the fact that it was a discount store. A lot of happy folks there, but a couple that was right behind me at the end of the maze - NO reversing directions due to the crowd - and I started chatting with them. Neither of us had anything in our carts. They had found they were not impressed with the prices as well. The prices weren't that good and for many items, when you considered that package weight was different than how the same type of thing would be packaged in places like WM, and in real cost wasn't any less than WM. At least at WM you know if you pick up a can of Campbell's tomato soup it will be the same size can as you would find in any regular grocery store. But the discounts may have what looks like the same size as a can, but the volume/weight is less, so even with the discount price you are getting less in the can and a bit less in cost, but if you are thinking that it will go as far, it won't.
I haven't been able to shop at Wegman's for years as it isn't located conveniently - wish I could as it has lots of items you can't find elsewhere plus a marvelous bakery. I love grocery shopping and used to be hugely into coupons, checking for loss leaders, sending in for rebates, etc. I had no need to go to discount grocery stores as I could do better shopping at a regular store. Boy, do I miss those days.
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