Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-09-19 12:39 <=-

mystery. Lidl and one of the Aldis I could understand.

good for you. Trader Joe's and Aldi are subsidiaries of Aldi
Nord and Aldi Sud respectively, long-term family frenemies,

That is an interesting thought.... Here in Rochester, we've had Aldi

Not to say that they are the same, TJ's being hipper and Aldi
more budgety, but their clienteles seem to coincide pretty
closely.

I guess I'm not really in either clientele... although I've found a
couple of things worth getting at TJ's the couple times I've dropped in there.... not a place I'd shop regularly, though...

(multiple locations) for quite a while, over a decade at least, probably more... but only in the last few years, we also acquired a Trader Joe's

What I'm wondering is if there has been a rift in the gentlemen's agreement or if it's all part of a grand scheme to ship a greater
share of our pocketbooks back to Germany.

I'd lean towards the latter... maybe the gentleman's agreement was
simply modified...

(at least one location, maybe another one or two)... Perhaps the Aldi
Nord and Aldi Sud decided that they might as well overlap territories
after all....? So far we don't have any Lidl here, so far as I know...

That would, of course, make it harder for Lidl to gain a
foothold, but there's still the cannibalization aspect that
makes me wonder about the strategy. Ah, well, they no doubt
have biz whizzes in the back doing the calculations.

No doubt... :) And they might just figure that there are enough people/shoppers available in some markets to mitigate the
cannibalization aspect.... If enough are shopping each store, nobody
loses market share really....

... The young know the rules, the old know the exceptions.

The very old know that there are no rules and/or no exceptions.

What rules are left, are hard and fast.... and probably for a good
reason... ;)

ttyl neb

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