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10 unusual facts about ALDI


Berthold Albrecht

Berthold Albrecht (14 August 1954 - 21 November 2012) was a German businessman and one of Germany's wealthiest men as co-owner (with his brother Theo Albrecht Jr.) of the Aldi Nord chain of discount supermarkets.

Clowne

Regeneration of the town centre has taken place including the opening of a Tesco supermarket, Wilkinson store and Aldi supermarket.

Gandia

Gandia has a number of shopping facilities including shopping malls and chain supermarkets like Carrefour and Aldi.

Gaywood, Norfolk

The Gaywood area has a wide variety of local shops, including a Tesco supermarket, Aldi, a launderette, several cafes and various takeaways.

Hedemünden

A large distribution center of the German discounter Aldi was built in the 1970s, a cable factory followed in the 1980s and an online retailer in the 1990s.

Lexington Park

An Aldi grocery store is one of the most recent additions to the site.

Pinhoe

The much delayed new household waste recycling centre off Exhibition Way (near Aldi) was opened by Devon County Council on 21 June 2011.

Privately held company

KPMG, the UK accounting firms Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, IKEA, Trafigura, J C Bamford Excavators (JCB), Lidl, Aldi, LEGO, Bosch, Rolex and Victorinox are some examples of Europe's largest privately held companies.

University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt

In 2006, the naming rights for the biggest lecture hall of the university (located on the Würzburg campus) were acquired by Aldi-Süd.

West Heath, Cheshire

It has its own recently redeveloped shopping centre with a Co-operative Group supermarket and an Aldi supermarket recently finished.


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Alex Aldi

Alex Aldi is a New York-based recording + mixing engineer who has worked with indie and major-label bands such as Passion Pit, The Rakes, Les Savy Fav, and White Rabbits.

Castletown, Sunderland

At Hylton Riverside, on the eastern fringe of Castletown, there is a large retail park hosting stores such as Matalan, Aldi and Pets at Home, Premier Inn hotel and a fitness club.

Charleville, County Cork

Charleville is also home to stores and restaurants such as Lidl, Supervalu, Subway, Supermacs, Papa Johns Elverys Sports and Aldi.

Donnington, Telford

Recently Donnington has added an Asda superstore and an Aldi supermarket to the Coop supermarket that already existed and a Morrisons supermarket has replaced the Netto supermarket in the centre of Donnington on the site of the old pub "The Champion Jockey".

Free-range eggs

Many retailers in the Netherlands, including Albert Heijn and Schuitema (subsidiaries of Ahold), Laurus (including Edah, Konmar and Super de Boer), Dirk van den Broek (including Bas van der Heijden and Digros), Aldi and Lidl sell only free-range shell eggs.

Gericom

In 1998 a webshop was established, and later Gericom products were also sold in supermarkets such as Aldi, Hofer or Lidl.

Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Mahoning Township contains the retail hub of Carbon County and in a one-mile stretch of Route 443 SW of Lehighton are located the Carbon Plaza Mall, Walmart, Lowe's, and Aldi.

Moonee Ponds, Victoria

Moonee Ponds Central Shopping Centre has many stores including Kmart, Aldi, The Coffee Club, Man to Man, Dick Smith Electronics, EB Games and Smiggle, Moonee Ponds Sewing

Novye Aldi massacre

In 2004, a previously unknown and allegedly Chechen Sufi group, Gazotan Murdash, claimed responsibility for the February 2004 Moscow metro bombing which killed 40 people on the fourth anniversary of the Aldi killings.

Parnell Street

The street also has flagship city centre stores for German discount supermarket chains such as Aldi and Lidl.

PriceRite

This is presumably to highlight the fact that much of PriceRite's competition is owned by European Union-based entities (Aldi is German-owned, Bottom Dollar Food is Belgian-owned, and Food Basics USA is operated by A&P, which is majority-owned by Germany's Tengelmann Group).

Stabler Center

Many prominent businesses have moved into the center recently including the Olympus Corporation and ALDI.

Westhill, Aberdeenshire

Many supermarkets have opened in Westhill, including Tesco, Costco, Aldi, The Cooperative and Marks and Spencer.