Amish or Mennonites Shopping = Good Deals
The other day, I mentioned to my wife that, as a rule of thumb, if you see Amish or Mennonites in a store, chances are there are some good deals to be had there. I’ve written separate posts before about Amish habits and food shopping here in Lancaster County.
Amish Food Shopping Extravaganza
Today, the two topics came together right before our eyes as we made a quick run to Aldi’s, our local discount grocery store. As we entered the store, I noticed that about 75% of the people in the store were Amish women and children pushing massively loaded carts full of food. Some of the most popular products were already cleaned out by their shopping spree. Not that I hold it against them. The Amish have large families, often with 12 to 14 children to feed and they’ve got to find deals I’m sure, to keep the grocery bill from spiraling out of control.
As we exited the store, pushing our own shopping cart filled with the week’s groceries, I noticed several fifteen passenger ‘Amish hauler’ vans pulling large trailers that the Amish ladies were loading up with hundreds of pounds of groceries. Younger children with helping hands tended babies or helped pack away the boxes of groceries.
Driving home, I tried to imagine myself in their shoes. Getting up early in the morning. Making lunches for the men to go to work with. Then hiring a van and driver to take you and your under school aged children to the grocery store to buy hundreds of pounds of groceries.
Which leaves me with a question one of our readers may be able to answer. How do the Amish get refrigeration?