...as one has just opened about fifteen minutes from me here.

We visited on Saturday. Though not the Aldi I remember in Germany, for example the choices of mustard weren't what I was hoping. Still, an improvement over the standard American store like Giant.

Giant is a monument to American excess; fifty foot aisles of sugary cereals shelved on both sides, another of the same for fizzy drinks and still another salty snacks. The whole thing is so big they can't maintain the stock let alone turn it over before the sell-by-date or the mould and rot move in. The wastage out the back is just phenomenal, and that's only the stuff they catch. You really have to be careful as they either don't care or there is too much to catch even the lion's share of expired, mouldy, or rotted stuff.

The Aldi is tiny compared to it, but it's clean and the stock is in reasonable control, though American customer behaviour is abysmal; not putting stuff back after digging through it, opening packaging, just pigs.