Wednesday, November 02, 2005

World Domination via chocolate soy milk and applesauce?

If you shop at Aldi (a minimal service international grocery store chain), you can buy: a loaf of bread, yogurt, toilet paper, soy milk, applesauce containers, and frozen vegetables all for the price of... get this... under six dollars. Yes, I said it. Everything for a total under six dollars.

Clearly, this is like heaven on earth for the chronically stingy. Basically, everything is half of what you'd pay at your local Piggly Wiggly or what have you. So, nag away on your loved ones to go to Aldi, if you are the nagging type. Or, in the alternative, if you just want to snap up this bone that the beauty of capitalism has thrown your way, go get your own ten cent loaf of bread. Just think of it this way, for the price of a martini at a downtown bar, you could feed a small army for a week.

This also leads inquiring minds to ask... how do they keep their costs so low? Rational minds will argue that their lack of services, frills, and minimal adherence to brand names keeps stuff cheap. Let's not dwell on logic, though. I prefer to conspiracy theorize. Perhaps there is some sort of international money laundering going on. Perhaps the food is encoded with secret messages to organizations intent on world domination.

Some would say that my desire to conspiracy theorize is born purely out of entertainment value. That is likely. However, such thinking never slashed the price of yogurt in half while facilitating underground secret organization communiques.
To do your own investigation or to find an Aldi near you, go to: http://aldi.com/

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