Brandoozle #83 answer

How players did

Players

35

Solved

100%

35 of 35

Average turns

1.7

among solvers

Difficulty

—

not yet rated

Half of the players who solved it did so by stage 1 of 6 — the measure of how little of the logo people needed.

The six facts

1. Two brothers took over their mother's Essen grocery shop after the war.

   Aldi - official siteOfficial

2. They split the company in 1960 over whether to sell cigarettes.

   Aldi - official siteOfficial

3. The two halves still divide the world between them geographically.

   Aldi - official siteOfficial

4. It stocks around 1,500 lines where a supermarket carries 30,000.

   Aldi - official siteOfficial

5. Shoppers insert a coin to release a trolley and get it back on return.

   Aldi - official siteOfficial

6. Its name contracts the family surname with the German word for discount.

   Aldi - official siteOfficial