German supermarket Lidl, which runs nearly one thousand stores across Britain, won Wednesday a trademark and copyright case against the country's biggest retailer Tesco regarding the use of a logo.
Three people were hurt Wednesday in
a blast at the German headquarters of discount supermarket Lidl, but police
declined to confirm media reports of a letter bomb.
They used to be byword for cheapness and no-frills shopping. But now Aldi have released their first ever German TV advert - and it doesn't appear to have just been filmed on someone's phone.
A couple in western Germany proved that some people will stop at nothing to earn their little piece of paradise when they tried to extort the discounter using pipe bombs.
Michelin-starred chef Nelson Müller filled up his baskets at Aldi and Lidl on Tuesday night to find out whether the discounters' groceries are up to his high standards - and found there's some things the discounters can't magic away.
The descendants of a committed Nazi, who made his fortune under the Third Reich, have shot to the top of Germany's rich list for the first time, leapfrogging the country's discount store billionaires. Who else made the top ten?
To be rich in Germany you either need to inherit your wealth, start a discount supermarket chain or own a chunk of BMW, according to the Forbes Billionaires List published on Tuesday.
Discount supermarket Lidl began taking all Coca-Cola products off its shelves in Germany on Monday, as a bitter price war between competing discount chains intensified.
Prices at discount German supermarkets Aldi and Lidl have risen quicker than those at their more expensive competitors, a consumer watchdog study revealed on Thursday.
The German discount supermarket chain Lidl was under fire on Thursday for reportedly scattering rat poison on its produce shelves - without warning customers or reporting a rodent problem to the authorities.
German discount supermarket chain Lidl has run out of a popular range of children's stickers meant to be as an incentive for families to buy at the store. Parents of devastated "Stikeez" fans have taken to the internet to voice their outrage.
Discount supermarket chain Lidl has been fined €1.5 million for leaving dangerous, Listeria-contaminated cheese on sale for too long. One person died after eating the cheese and three more became ill.
Next week the well-known discount chain Aldi will start selling more brand name products by introducing Coca-Cola drinks to its shelves – to be followed by skin care products from Nivea.
A gang of thieves in Germany upped the ante when planning a ram-raid on a supermarket – they used a mechanical digger to tear off half the roof and pull down a wall to get to the safe.
The best business to get into in Germany seems to be discount supermarkets - the owners of Aldi, Lidl and Kaufland again top the list of the country’s richest people.
Discount supermarket chains like Aldi and Lidl should enter the petrol business to increase competition and reduce gasoline prices for German drivers, Economy Minister Rainer Brüderle said Monday.
The discount supermarket Lidl has pulled a batch of peppers from its shops and is calling for those who have bought them to return them after they were found to contain too high levels of a growth regulator.
The founder of bargain-basement supermarket chain Aldi, Karl Albrecht, topped a list of Germany's richest people published Tuesday, with assets valued at €17.1 billion ($23.6 billion).
Grocery discounter Lidl is making an unexpected pitch for the introduction of a minimum wage in the retail sector, business daily <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> reported Wednesday.
Two people have died in Germany from eating contaminated Austrian cheese that has sparked a massive product recall and consumer warning, authorities announced on Tuesday.
