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Aldi (stylised as ALDI [6]) (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. [7] [8] The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when they took over their mother's store in Essen.
Theo and Karl Albrecht split the Aldi Company they founded in 1960 after a dispute about whether to sell cigarettes. [8] The supermarket divided into two legally separate operating units with two distinct geographical locations. Theo's Aldi Nord set to operate in the north of Germany, while Karl's Aldi Süd set to operate in Germany's south. [9]
In March 2024, it was reported that Aldi completed the purchase of Winn-Dixie's parent company. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] On February 7, 2025, it was reported that Aldi plans to sell nearly 170 Winn-Dixie stores and 170 of its liquor stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers.
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[18] [19] In June 2017, Lidl opened its first stores in the United States in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and other mid-Atlantic cities. [20] The company planned to open a total of one hundred U.S. stores by the summer of 2018. [5] [20] In November 2018, Lidl announced plans to acquire 27 Best Market stores in New York and New Jersey. [21]
First Aldi store in Schonnebeck, Essen. Karl and Theo Albrecht were born and raised in a Catholic [3] family in modest circumstances in Essen, Germany.Their father, Karl Sr., worked as a miner and later as a baker's assistant, [4] while their mother Anna (née Siepmann) ran a small grocery store in the workers' quarter of Schonnebeck [], a suburb of Essen.
[4] [5] In 1979, the chain was sold to Aldi founder Theo Albrecht, [6] who owned it until his death in 2010; ownership passed to his heirs. [7] The company operates offices in both Monrovia, California, and Boston, Massachusetts but remains German-owned. [8] Trader Joe's has been accused of union busting in numerous cases.
Wakefern Food Corporation is an American company that was founded in 1946 and is based in Keasbey, New Jersey. [5] It is the largest retailers' cooperative group of supermarkets and the fourth-largest cooperative of any kind in the United States.