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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Don t mess with aldi customers - What They Never Told You

The Aldi supermarket on Willow Road in Glenview. On my first visit, I was slow to grasp the superlative wonderfulness of Aldi. Its devoted customers set me straight. (Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times)

On my second visit to Aldi, I paused in the parking lot to admire its lovely logo: twin trios of stylized wavy blue lines, representing the rivers of life and happiness, perhaps.

My quarter was already in hand. I slid it into a slot and a cart was released. An ingenious system that frees Aldi from having to hire someone to wrangle carts — maybe so they can go to college, study to be a doctor, cure cancer.

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