Interesting facts and figures

Here are some interesting ‘numbers’ about Aldi.

TWO brothers founded the company
Karl and Theo Albrecht. (Aldi stands for Albrecht Discount.)

Over 7,000 stores worldwide
And tens of thousands of people working with us.

TWO ‘Special Buy’ days a week
Every Sunday and Thursday our stores are filled with extra special offers in strictly limited supply. Incredibly popular – so best get there early.

Millions of customers – and rising
The ‘Spend a little Live a lot’ message is getting through to more and more people. Why change your lifestyle, when you can just change your supermarket?

400 stores across the UK
…with more stores opening all the time. And to think we only opened our first in 1990.

35 × 3-bedroom houses
We sell enough batteries each year to power them for an entire year.

75 million
On average, Aldi sells over 150,000 bottles of red wine each week – that takes an incredible 75 million grapes to produce.

The whole of London
In 2008 we will have sold over 7 million bunches of flowers – that’s enough for 1 bunch per person for the entire population of Greater London.

A blue whale
On average, we sell over 500,000 blocks of cheese per month, the equivalent weight of a blue whale.