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Just past noon, Anna Chernova, a 68-year-old retiree, pushes her black metal shopping cart into an Aldi store on Chicago's North Side. After arriving from Russia 16 years ago, Chernova regularly shopped at conventional supermarkets like Dominick's and Jewel-Osco, but no more. "They're too expensive," Chernova says, lengthy shopping list in hand. Now she visits Aldi once a week, drawn by the no-frills chain's $2.69 gallon jugs of milk (compared with $3.99 for a gallon of Dean whole milk at Jewel-Osco) and 33¢ boxes of salt (compared with 79?...
...checks are accepted. And at any given time, there are no more than five staffers inside an Aldi store. For instance, during Chernova's recent trip in Chicago, there were just two cashiers, an employee replenishing milk shelves and a security guard greeting customers. Even using a shopping cart requires a 25¢ deposit, thereby ensuring that employees spend less time chasing carts...
Just past noon, Anna Chernova, a 68-year-old retiree, pushed her black metal shopping cart into an Aldi store here. After arriving from Russia 16 years ago, Chernova regularly shopped at conventional supermarkets like Dominick's and Jewel, but no more. "They're too expensive," Chernova says, clutching her shopping list with one hand. Now she visits Aldi once a week, drawn by the deep discounter's $2.69 1-gal. jugs of milk and 33-cent boxes of salt. "I've got to save my pennies," she says, heading into the store. Chernova certainly isn't alone...
...seemingly indestructible Martian rovers have also been busy. Since landing in early 2004, the golf-cart-size Spirit and Opportunity have toddled about on different parts of the planet, dipping into craters, drilling into rocks and sending back data about Mars' makeup and watery past. But the Martian elements have left the rovers increasingly arthritic: Opportunity's robotic arm has stiffened to the point that controllers no longer retract it fully, and Spirit has been forced to drive backward as a result of a bum front wheel...
...those votes belonged to O'Hare. But after years of voting for Republicans, she told me, she feels compelled to change horses. Of Obama, she said simply, "I think he would do better in a crisis." Her daughter nodded in agreement as Traven watched impatiently from a shopping cart...