[dadadad100]

We’ve got a costco and an Aldi in the same parking lot. Between the two we rarely have to go elsewhere. To the point of the OP, I think Aldi by itself is bringing down the average size of stores. Great European quality stuff at ridiculously low prices

[rahimnathwani]

"We’ve got a costco and an Aldi in the same parking lot."

South San Francisco has a Trader Joe's right behind a Costco parking lot: https://goo.gl/maps/ZakBe7FENqr1ybRm9

Not quite as good as an Aldi, but close.

[wenc]

What if you need more cultural foods? Costco and Aldi only have very generic foods. Costco has the odd frozen food and snacks from other cultures, but otherwise it's just a lot of run-off-the-mill type food.

[dadadad100]

Good point. My comment was mostly about “essentials”. If your “essentials” includes Asian or south-Asian essentials then we have those too and love going there almost as an excursion. And those stores are also small, to the OP.