Mondelez International, the snack giant behind brands like Oreo, Chips Ahoy!, and Ritz, is suing Aldi for trademark infringement, alleging that the grocery chain's private-label packaging "blatantly copies" their products.
Aldi Got Sued for Being a Copycat. What It Did Next Was Brilliant. After the owner of Oreos and Ritz crackers sued Aldi for copycat packaging, Aldi made a big change. It's a lesson for every company.
Salary and wage theft. Aldi has been the defendant in more than one lawsuit over wage theft. In 2019, store managers in Syracuse, New York, filed complaints that they were given salaries to do hourly work, meaning that they were essentially not being paid to do work that their employees were paid to do.
Like Aldi, Lidl insists that its customers are not confused by lookalikes: “Our customers are very savvy and understand what they are buying. While we always look at market trends, we take the intellectual property of others very seriously and it would never be our intent to breach intellectual property laws.”
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Did Aldi win the court case?
The Court of Appeal in Thatchers Cider v Aldi has overturned a High Court decision and ruled that the supermarket group infringed the drinks producer's trade mark that covered the "get-up" of its cloudy cider lemon drink by taking unfair advantage through the sale of a lookalike product.
However, much of the chain's fresh salmon is farm-raised. If you're ever in doubt, look on the label or packaging for the words "wild" or "wild-caught." If you don't see them, it's farmed fish.
Aldi's market share stands at 10.8%, unchanged since a year earlier. Its operating profit also dipped sharply in 2024, by 21% to £435.5m, with the supermarket blaming continued investment in lowering prices as well as infrastructure and pay rises for staff.
ALDI encourages applications from small businesses and suppliers that are considered diverse (at least 51% owned and operated by a minority, woman, veteran, person with a disability, or an LGBTQ person).
Some say it's how "old crows" who have long shopped at the store find each other. Others believe it refers to the sound a crow makes when it spies something shiny and interesting. Either way, the caw caw call is a method AOS shoppers -- kindred spirits, if you will -- use to find one another in the store.
In 1971, the unthinkable happened. Theo Albrecht was kidnapped outside his office in Germany. The crime was led by Heinz Joachim Ollenburg, a dishonest lawyer with a gambling problem, and an accomplice named Paul Kron, a former safe-cracker.
On the other hand, Aldi (10.5% market share) does not sell tobacco and has never done so, and finally, Lidl (8.3% market share) used to sell tobacco products but no longer does so. Lidl have made a decision to phase out tobacco sales at all their stores, with most already tobacco free.
When he discovered a newspaper article about a painter and retired schoolteacher Ludwig Lidl, he bought the rights to the name from him for 1,000 German marks.
