Saturday, July 31, 2010

Kinda makes me sad. We shop both stores and did when we lived in Germany. Karl has an apartment in Geneva IL. The Aldi HQ is in Batavia. Geneva St Charles and Batavia are considered the TRI CITIES. End of an era. I hope those who follow on after them will not mess it up. They have been genius in the model they developed. IF I can't find it at Aldi or TJ's I probably don't need it.


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Theo Albrecht, co-owner of Trader Joes, died last Saturday in his home city of Essen, Germany. Albrecht was 88. One of Europe's wealthiest men, Albrecht and his brother Karl opened "Albrecht Discount" stores- or "Aldi"- in Germany in the 1960's. Trader Joe's w...as purchased by the brothers i...

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