Aldi Locations Locator Map and Directory

Company Info and History: ALDI is a supermarket chain based in Germany. It is actually two separate companies, but is commonly referred to as one. The company's name stands for Albrecht-Discount, using the founders' last name. Historically, Aldi is said to have been Germany's first real discount supermarket. In 2006, its chain of over 5,000 supermarkets with low prices on a limited range of goods can be found in sixteen countries with global revenue of 37 billion dollars (29.3 billion euro). The name Aldi is not used in all the markets it operates.

The company was founded in 1948 by the brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in Essen, Germany. Initially it comprised only one small food shop. Aldi specialises in staple items such as food, beverages, sanitary articles and other inexpensive household items. Many of its products are own-brand labelled, with the number of outside brands being very limited, usually no more than two different brands for one kind of product and often only one. This increases the numbers of sales for each article and also allows Aldi stores to be smaller than supermarkets which cover the same range of products but with more diversity. Also it allowed Aldi to avoid the use of price tags even before the introduction of barcode scanners.