{"id":357,"date":"2018-04-12T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/12\/2018412aldi-grand-opening-provides-more-grocery-competition-in-hamden\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:45:48","slug":"2018412aldi-grand-opening-provides-more-grocery-competition-in-hamden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/12\/2018412aldi-grand-opening-provides-more-grocery-competition-in-hamden\/","title":{"rendered":"ALDI grand opening provides more grocery competition in Hamden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Grace Manthey and Thamar Bailey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where Hamden community members used to find a seasonal Halloween store, they will now find an up in coming supermarket. Aldi opened its doors for the first time on Thursday, April 12 on Dixwell Avenue, marking the company\u2019s 26th location in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The first 100 customers received a golden envelope with a gift card.<\/p>\n<p>Hamden resident and Quinnipiac University alumnus Paula Santagata wasn\u2019t one of the first 100 customers. However, having been to Aldi stores in both Wallingford and East Haven, she was excited to have the store closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prices are very good and it\u2019s clean and it\u2019s a good competition,\u201d Santagata said.<\/p>\n<p>Santagata\u2019s husband Tony also appreciated the addition of another store for competition. He said it helps keep the prices down so people can, \u201cmake a living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve gotta live within your means and this works for us. Nobody walks in my house hungry and leaves the same way. So these stores work and I\u2019m happy, I\u2019ve still got money in my pocket,\u201d he said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Aldi is involved in sustainability initiatives, so they encourage customers to bring their own bags or buy reusable bags upon checkout.<\/p>\n<p>The store is open every day 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Hamden community members used to find a seasonal Halloween store, they will now find an up in coming supermarket. Aldi opened its doors for the first time on Thursday, April 12 on Dixwell Avenue, marking the company\u2019s 26th location in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}