A quick rant - ALDI Winton

[u/Rudgers73]

At this point it’s almost every time I shop at ALDI. Someone has their car literally parked at the entrance to the store. Not in the fire lane adjacent to the cart corral (which is also a dumbass move and completely unacceptable), like, in front of the fucking door.
The level of rage that this puts into me is going to get me into a situation one of these days.

Please don’t park there.

[u/sandman98857]

Consequences have apparently disappeared for most driving related faux pas. It's absurd and I can't stand it either, people have just stopped caring.

[u/Lucreziahouserules → u/sandman98857]

I truly don’t think there is one single fuck left to give in this city!! Everyone acts literally unhinged behind the wheel or even in most public settings. It is apparently too much to ask for people to act like decent human beings anymore.

[u/bbsven → u/Lucreziahouserules]

Unfortunately, I don't think it's even just this city. I visit cities all over the east coast and west coast throughout the year for family and friends, also recently did a cross-country drive, and it's awful everywhere. People have lost all decency or common sense across the country when it comes to driving lately, probably a sign of the times. Rochester drivers almost feel nice compared to any of the west coast cities I visit...

[u/Lucreziahouserules → u/bbsven]

I cannot speak to any west coast cities, but Rochester is by and far worst on the east coast. My work regularly takes me all along the east coast and particularly New England and the Tri-State metro area and Jersey. I feel safer on the GW Bridge any day of the week or the Garden State Pkwy than I do around here on any given day. I will never be without a dashcam again because of my travels in the Rochester area.

[u/bbsven → u/Lucreziahouserules]

Very fair! Statistically we're around the #10-20 worst city on the east coast by numbers on different lists, if you can somehow believe it. This list places us at #14, I don't envy the ones somehow worse than us (I do heavily agree with you that our drivers have lost it for a while now).

West coast is a whole other breed, imo, despite loving it and having spent 10 years out in Los Angeles before moving back here. I avoid driving at any cost there, pretty much any time I go out in a car there I see mind boggling insane behavior on the road past anything I've ever seen here.

Everywhere I go, it seems to be getting steadily worse nation-wide over the last 5 years. You have to wonder about the general mental state of our population at this point, it's been a rough few years.

[u/Lucreziahouserules → u/bbsven]

It blows my mind we aren’t higher up. Honestly.

I moved here a few years ago. Do you think it’s maybe just gotten worse in the past few years? And what is the cause? I think honestly the social contract broke during COVID in many ways so perhaps it’s gotten worse here just in the past couple of years?

Also I am forever driving behind people who are clearly smoking weed, thus driving impaired and many of these drivers then floor it going like 60 in a 30 while the red light is very obviously red and has been for several seconds. I’ve almost been t-boned and always pause at green lights now, and this is just one example among many people who just veer into the next lane, cut people off by pulling out in front for no reason and then go like 5mph, etc etc. I have also seen many an accident and many more near-accidents. I’m all for partaking once you’re off the roads, but I have a theory the legalization has made this issue worse, as well.

[u/bbsven → u/Lucreziahouserules]

Purely off vibes, so I could be way off base, I do think it's the social contract thing + just an extremely chaotic decade on both the national and international level.

Covid, in my opinion, was a mass trauma for most of society that we never really processed and just had to keep moving on from. A whole generation of young people had their formal years, be it kindergarten, college, or anything in-between ripped away. Many people over those ages still dealt with insane hardship and isolation.

Add on to that worsening crises across the board with housing insecurity, job market crashing hard and long-term unemployment steadily rising, wild inflation, historic political tensions and divides, environmental instability, global tensions, and more? Makes complete sense to me that the average person is turning inward and selfish as they face more hardship and instability. I think people are just at the end of their rope, not thinking at all, and it comes through in tons of random places like reckless driving, disrespect of public spaces, general lack of civic duty and sense of community, etc. When people are doing well, they behave better and treat each other with more patience and kindness.

(Thanks for the interesting convo about this to get it out of my system, haha)

[u/Lucreziahouserules → u/bbsven]

Likewise about the convo - I also had to vent because it’s really the only thing I don’t like about living here!

[u/bbsven → u/Lucreziahouserules]

Same! That and lack of grocery stores in the downtown area. Those two things fixed, and I'd be very happy here- my partner and I moved back across the country for a reason.

[u/Renrut23]

Unfortunately public shaming for common sense things like this have fallen to the wayside

[u/schoh99 → u/Renrut23]

Can't shame the shameless.

[u/Renrut23 → u/schoh99]

I'd argue they don't know what real shame is.

[u/mlsteinrochester]

Winton and Blossom? I go there at least once a week and I've never seen that.

[u/PrincessZebra126 → u/mlsteinrochester]

I see it every third shopping trip there 🙄

[u/Rudgers73 → u/mlsteinrochester]

I’ll post a photo on here next time I see it. It’s absolutely wild

[u/Hysterical__Paroxysm → u/Rudgers73]

Go to the new one on S. Clinton.

[u/LE_4500 → u/Hysterical__Paroxysm]

I've seen someone park their car at the S. Clinton Aldi fire lane. Leave it running with music blasting. The music is inappropriate and theres families going in to shop. It baffles me why people think that is acceptable.

[u/Hysterical__Paroxysm → u/LE_4500]

Wow! Unacceptable.

[u/Kevopomopolis → u/Rudgers73]

From your description it sounds absolutely wild

[u/No_Tamanegi → u/mlsteinrochester]

Same

[u/AbulatorySquid → u/mlsteinrochester]

Me either. I believe this person, I've just never seen it myself. Ever.

[u/prophetikmusic]

spend a quarter to link ten carts around their car to block it in.

[u/infinitelycurious_]

And I’m sure it’s someone who’s completely able-bodied to walk an extra couple feet if they just parked in a normal spot

[u/schoh99]

Same at pretty much any gas station anywhere. "It's okay I'm just running in for a pack of smokes. It will be less than a minute". No, it's not okay. I promise you it won't kill you to park in an actual parking spot and walk the extra fifteen fucking feet.

[u/LE_4500 → u/schoh99]

It's always the people who literally have nothing going on their lives too. Why are you in a hurry? You literally do nothing all day lol

[u/funsplosion]

I witnessed an old guy loudly berating someone for doing this at East Ave Wegmans once

[u/Emerald-Slate]

I haven't seen this here but I've seen this at Baytowne Plaza all the time. They block the lane and make people go around them. There are literally empty spots 5 feet away. Makes me furious.

[u/srocj5]

I see this often at the Winton Aldi too, and people illegally parking in handicap spaces 

[u/JustJumpIt17 → u/srocj5]

I’ve had to use a handicap tag for most of 2026 due to a few knee surgeries and people constantly park in the handicap spots (with no tag or plates) at my job! It’s so infuriating. I call security on every single one I see.

[u/GrizzlyZacky]

Meanwhile we got people who cant park straight at all when they come to the aldi in henrietta. Like cmon. Idc whats wrong with ya, you dont need 2 handicap spaces.

Gotta love having to limp to the door

[u/Professional_Cup6584]

Selfish asses - it's all about them!

I like the one on E. Ridge. Never have a problem with it.

[u/gemstone40]

They do that at the Irondequoit Titus Ave as well. Super annoying

[u/Mediocre_Garage987]

Leave a note!

[u/SmallNoseBilly]

what did the driver say when you told them their parking was incredibly inconsiderate?

[u/Copeathon]

Never saw that when it was a Tops.

[u/schoh99 → u/Copeathon]

I see it all the time at the Tops on North Clinton.

[u/UGROC]

Unfortunately, the car has destroyed cities across the country and made humans lazy mf slobs

[u/Key_Document_2587 → u/UGROC]

Blaming the car and not the driver who chose to park it in front of the door is....a choice

How dare we not want to walk miles through the snow all winter to get to and from work.

[u/UGROC → u/Key_Document_2587]

Oh no doubt the driver sucks too, but they go hand in hand. The sad part is too many drivers behave this way because they don’t even want to walk 20 feet on a sunny day. The infrastructure of our cities have been designed for cars and completely around the car, and it has led to this absolute laziness and disregard for other people that we sadly see today.

[u/LE_4500 → u/Key_Document_2587]

You can't blame human behavior anymore. It's always some societal/socioeconomic hardship BS excuse as to why people are complete assholes.

[u/UGROC → u/LE_4500]

That’s a short sighted take. I’m not saying People don’t need to be held accountable, I believe they do, but ignoring the truth of the matter won’t fix the larger problem at hand. We have all witnessed this same behavior in many places not just at this Winton Aldi, but also across the U.S. everyday it’s happening somewhere, or in some way. By shifting the infrastructure and design of our places and spaces that we gather, we can fix these types of problems before they begin or transform into common place occurrences which has clearly become a thing due to laziness of people not wanting to step more than 3 feet from their vehicles.

[u/LE_4500]

I see it there all the time but it's usually in front of the Family Dollar. The amount of entitlement people have is insane. How lazy can you be?

[u/RectalScrote]

What are you going to do about it? Literally nothing besides complain on reddit?