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Originally Posted by chuckinca
From Wikipedia:
"Trader Joe's was founded by Joe Coulombe and has been owned since 1979 by a German family trust established by Aldi Nord's owner Theo Albrecht."
More Wikipedia lies?
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This is from memory - so not 100% guaranteed. The original Aldi was owned by two brothers. They had a disagreement about something - selling cigarettes, maybe - and split into Aldi North and Aldi South. Aldi North is the company that owns Trader Joe's, Aldi South owns "our" Aldi.