Aldi/Trader Joe's history

[Mik]

I was not aware of this, although I knew an Aldi owned TJs.

[taiwan_girl]

@mik Interesting. I did not know the background story to that.

When I was in Austria last year, I took a picture of the "Austrian Aldi". I knew the symbol was an Aldi symbol, but was wondering why the name was different. Turns out that the Aldi South guy bought the Hofer supermarket chain in Austria a lot of years ago, and while it is basically an Aldi, he kept the Austrian name.

[89th]

I am thankful for Aldi. There is one pretty close and we do 50% of our grocery shopping there. Fruit, salads, chips, bread, cheese, eggs, milk, they even have good frozen meals like coconut-crusted cod. Can't beat the prices anywhere and the quality is good.

[Tom-K]

Aldi has great fish and lousy wine. TJ has great flowers and great wine. What's best in Aldi is the real German products which are sprinkled around the store.

[jon-nyc]

I didn’t know about the split either. There’s a newish Aldis a couple towns over. I should give it a try. I’ve been shopping at TJs for 20 years. In Brooklyn it was my primary store, here it’s an occasional stop for some favorites.

[89th]

Yeah in Virginia we'd get probably 25% of our stuff from Trader Joe's. They had so many great "only at Trader Joes" items. One item which is a "not the WORST" snack are plantain chips. Purple and yellow bag, I think... try them out, there is also a spicy version if you need heat. Anyway... I could eat them forever and I think (!) they were Whole30 certified.