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Aldi became the latest supermarket to confirm its withdrawn beef products contained up to 100% horsemeat. "We believe that the two particular cases of the frozen burgers from Tesco and the lasagne from Findus are linked to suppliers in Ireland and France respectively. We and the Food Standards Agency are working closely with the authorities in these countries, as well as with Europol, to get to the root of the problem," Owen Paterson said. The Metropolitan police said in a statement it was not carrying out a criminal investigation. "Although we have met with the FSA we have not started...

German discount supermarket giant Aldi, which has consistently made its owners the richest men in the country, has been taking government subsidies to train employees, it emerged at the weekend. But weekly magazine Der Spiegel said many details remain shrouded in secrecy even by the government, to protect the commercial interests of Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd—separate but associated companies. Information officially requested from the Federal Office for Goods Transport (BAG) did show that Aldi training was being paid for with government funds, but details were scarce. …

This morning I went to TJ's only to see the sidewalk in front of the store loaded with young people holding signs that read "Traitor Joe's", "Duquesnes Students for Fair Food", and "Fair Wages, Fair Food". I thought "WTH?" and as i approached the entrance, I was confronted by two college students (one wearing a North Face jacket) who told me that the "workers in Florida who pick the tomatoes sold by Trader Joes, like, don't get paid enough, like hardly anything". I told this little punk that most of those "workers" are in the U.S. illegally, that he should...

Theo Albrecht and his brother Karl introduced the world to discount shopping when they founded Aldi half a century ago. The two intensely secretive men were considered some of the richest people in Germany. On Saturday, Theo died at the age of 88. He was one of the richest men in Germany, and also one of the most secretive. Theo Albrecht, who co-founded the immensely successful discount grocery chain Aldi, died on Saturday according to a statement released by the company. Eighty-eight years old at the time of his death, he was laid to rest on Wednesday in a small...

Many of you will know Aldi, the international retail giant owned by two reclusive German billionaires (hence the "Deutsche Küche" German delicatessen special purchases from time to time). Some because you shop there regularly, others because you read in the Wall Street Journal how they drove Walmart out of Germany (Legend has it that Aldi is the only company Walmart is afraid of because their overhead is so very low that they cannot beat them on price.). Of course they offer 4th of July BBQ items on their US web page as well. But did you know that Aldi celebrates...

The German-owned grocery chain plans to expand its U.S. operations rapidly and grab market share from Wal-Mart. But its ownership and ubiquity has earned it some enemies. Aldi’s low prices—up to 40 percent lower than those of regular supermarkets—have won the chain many vocal fans. Amy Clark, creator of MomAdvice.com, a site focusing on lifestyle for stay-at-home mothers, “I often tell my friends and family that Aldi Supermarket is how I can afford to be a stay-at-home mom. Although I say this jokingly, I do credit Aldi a lot for allowing the room in our budget that we needed for...

FRANKFURT, July 28 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's biggest retailer, is selling its underperforming German stores to the country's leading retail chain Metro (MEOG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), a major retreat that will cost it about $1 billion. Wal-Mart, which operates 85 hypermarkets across Germany, said on Friday it would incur the roughly $1 billion pretax loss on the deal in the second quarter of its fiscal 2007 year. Wal-Mart entered Germany in 1997 but has been unable to capture market share, hurt by cut-throat competition from rivals such as Metro or discounters like Aldi....

Black-red want to stop price wars, Union and SPD consider measures against preisdumping with Discounters such as Aldi and Lidl. The future government wants to forbid the ruinous discount battle in the trade by law. Berlin - which coalition working group under line of the designate federal consumer protection Minister refuge Seehofer (CSU) and the Federal Secretary of Justice on appropriate measures informed itself Brigitte Zypries (SPD), reports the "citizens of Berlin newspaper". Therefore the Koalitionaere wants to forbid the sales of food under cost price in the future in principle. In the course of a novella of the trust...