Aldi pulls customers away from mainstream grocers as prices rise
October 10, 2022
Aldi has more than a million new households shopping its stores this year, helping to drive double-digit sales growth. Foot traffic to the chain’s stores was up 10.5 percent year-over-year, according to Placer.ai, even as it remained flat for the grocery sector as a whole.
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