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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Aldi often pushes the envelope when it comes to selling products under its own house-brand names that are clear imitations of more expensive name-brand products. That approach recently caused problems for Aldi UK after it was accused of copying a…
Each week, we round up the biggest stories in the international world of Aldi. Here’s what we’ve been reading: United Kingdom: Aldi Testing Self Checkout Aldi began a trial run of self checkout on Monday at its Glascote store in…
Each week, we round up the biggest stories in the international world of Aldi. Here’s what we’ve been reading: Germany: Aldi Family Feuding Over Will The family that founded Aldi Nord in Germany is in the midst of a dispute…
Each week, we round up the biggest stories in the international world of Aldi. Here’s what we’ve been reading: United States: Aldi Shopper Loses Wallet to Pickpocket Soon after a man in Huntsville, Alabama, went shopping at Aldi, he discovered…
