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![Aldi executives shake hands as shoppers wait in line to enter the new Aldi market in Fountain Valley last year.]()
Aldi executives shake hands as shoppers wait in line to enter the new Aldi market in Fountain Valley last year.
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![Customers visit Aldi in Anaheim ahead of its soft opening last year.]()
Customers visit Aldi in Anaheim ahead of its soft opening last year.
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![Shoppers pack the isles at the new Aldi market in Fountain Valley last year when it opened. (JOSHUA SUDOCK, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)]()
Shoppers pack the isles at the new Aldi market in Fountain Valley last year when it opened. (JOSHUA SUDOCK, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
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![Aldi market shoppers seemed to favor non-organic bananas.(JOSHUA SUDOCK, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)]()
Aldi market shoppers seemed to favor non-organic bananas.(JOSHUA SUDOCK, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
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![Shoppers wait in line to enter the new Aldi market in Fountain Valley last year.]()
Shoppers wait in line to enter the new Aldi market in Fountain Valley last year.
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![Coffee in a variety of flavors at the Aldi discount supermarket in Buena Park.]()
Coffee in a variety of flavors at the Aldi discount supermarket in Buena Park.
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![A unique feature of Aldi markets is that customers have to bag their own groceries.]()
A unique feature of Aldi markets is that customers have to bag their own groceries.
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![Ken Bandy of Dana Point, left, traveled all the way to Fountain Valley to shop at Aldi market when he heard they carried an assortment of hard-to-find German cheeses.]()
Ken Bandy of Dana Point, left, traveled all the way to Fountain Valley to shop at Aldi market when he heard they carried an assortment of hard-to-find German cheeses.
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Aldi, the no-frills chain from Germany, is opening its fourth Orange County location June 1 in Garden Grove.
The store, at 9901 Chapman Ave., is the first Aldi to open in Orange County in more than a year. Last year the chain, which sells private-label groceries at deep discounts, opened its first stores in California under much hype. Analysts predicted the chain would disrupt the hyper-competitive Southern California grocery scene.
Aldi maintains shoppers can save up to 50 percent on their grocery bills with their private label goods.
Orange County stores are in Fountain Valley, Anaheim and Buena Park with new locations planned for Westminster and Laguna Woods. Opening dates have not been announced for those locations.
In Los Angeles County, Aldi plans to open a store May 25 in Santa Fe Springs and another in Downey on June 1.
By mid-summer, Aldi will have opened 38 stores in Southern California. Aldi, short for “Albrecht Discount,” is owned by the Albrecht family of Germany. Its parent company has ties to the operators of Trader Joe’s; however, both companies are separately owned and operated.