<![CDATA[Aldi/Trader Joe's history]]>I was not aware of this, although I knew an Aldi owned TJs.

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]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/39534/aldi-trader-joe-s-historyRSS for NodeMon, 27 Apr 2026 01:21:19 GMTSun, 26 Apr 2026 18:01:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Aldi/Trader Joe's history on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:10:25 GMT]]>@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.

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