Manna from heaven came into Marilyn Murphy s life on Thursday in the form of the new Venice Aldi store.
Murphy, who lives in Venice three months a year, is an Aldi devotee. When she s in her full-time state of Illinois, she goes to Aldi. In Florida, she drives to Aldi as far away as North Port or Port Charlotte to stock up on groceries. She lives six miles away from the one in Nokomis and now she s just a mile away from the one in Venice s Jacaranda Plaza.
She plans to take advantage of this close proximity by walking to Aldi from where she lives. She even has her own shopping cart that she plans to push around on the sidewalks along U.S. 41.