Aldi is Chicago based, and I think they understand both what it means to run a business, and to get stores into food deserts.
I take what the pharmacists puts in the bag.
After that, I pretty much make everything else, go local, or used. I get a four-gallon stock of ethanol every couple of years, you can't get anything but Arm & Hammer baking soda anymore, I got my beeswax from a local beekeeper, my seeds from our farmers' market....
My Fudeball pens are Japanese? Ikea?