Trader Joe’s has been in LA about 40 years. Aldis bought them out fairly recently.
Actually they are owned by 2 brothers and their families.
Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord. Guess they had a fight years ago about selling certain items (tobacco?) and split.
Before TJ he opened “Pronto” markets 1958, and the first TJ was opened in 1967.
As a kid I shopped at the Pronto in my neighborhood strip mall of the era.
My town got a TJ by the early 1980s, I recall.