If you’re an average Aldi shopper, there’s a good chance you didn’t know that there is an international competition in the dairy industry. If you’re an Aldi blogger, you didn’t know about it until this morning, either. Well, there is. It’s called the World Dairy Innovation Awards, organized by international…
Aldi, which has operated an online store in China since 2017, will be opening two physical stores in Shanghai, China, on June 7th, according to RetailDetail. RetailDetail reports that this is the beginning of a large expansion project and an effort to attract China’s growing middle class population. Specialist website…
Aldi, Trader Joe’s, and Lidl were two of several grocery stores to earn 2019 Salute to Excellence awards at the World of Private Label International Trade Show last week in Amsterdam. The awards showcase innovation in the private label market, and recipients were announced during the trade show hosted by…
Almost two years ago to the day, we published our eBook, An Unofficial Guide to Shopping at Aldi. It was our attempt to put our experience with Aldi into a guide that people could use to improve their Aldi trips. A lot has changed since then, from new products to…
Aldi’s arch rival, the German discount grocery store chain Lidl, announced Friday that it will open 25 new stores in the United States by the spring of 2020. The new stores will be in East coast states, including Maryland, New York, Pennslyvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The new stores…
The grocery industry news site, Progressive Grocer, recently shared its top grocer ranking for 2019. Aldi remained in position number 9 this year, the same as last year. The online retail giant Amazon, which acquired Whole Foods Market, fell below Aldi this year, moving from number 8 to number 10.…
A protest against the decision to cancel Aldi’s contract at a market hall in the Kreuzberg district in Berlin, Germany, drew more than 400 people, according to a story in The Guardian. Markthalle Neun, a market hall dating to the 1800s, has been renewed and populated with boutique shops and…
Artifacts discovered in a royal Anglo-Saxon tomb located near an Aldi grocery store prior to a road-widening project are going on display at Southend Central Museum in the United Kingdom today. The area in Prittlewell, Essex, was known to be the site of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, and the Museum of…
In a report Aldi commissioned the business advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to compile, it appears that Aldi in Australia, with its low prices, has kept the grocery industry in that country competitive and kept grocery prices down across the board in Australia. ABC reports that Aldi says customers in Australia have…
Aldi is known for its reliably low grocery prices. In the United States, its store-brand Regular Buy products have fairly fixed prices, occasionally getting discounted by 10 to 20 cents but otherwise not changing much. That is changing in Aldi stores in Germany. German-based Aldi will raise prices on some…
