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Most of the mainstream chain supermarkets in the US don't sell guns (Kroger, Target, Whole Foods, Costco, Albertsons, Ahold, Publix, Sams, HEB, Meijer, Aldi, et al.). Walmart is the primary exception there.

Overwhelmingly that's now handled by independent gun stores, or a select few sporting good chains (eg Dick's Sporting Goods - the largest sporting goods chain in the US - which sells a restricted set of rifles and a few shotguns; they came under pressure not long ago to get rid their guns and they capitulated and reduced what and how they sell [1]).

Big corporations in the US are drastically more sensitive today to gun issues and the related bad PR that goes with selling guns (even Walmart has rolled back their selling of guns).

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-dicks-sporting-goods-deci...



WTF?! You really have Aldi in the US? As a german I never supposed that.


We have lots of Aldi's in Australia, too.

> Internationally, Aldi Nord operates in Denmark, France, the Benelux countries, Portugal, Spain and Poland, while Aldi Süd operates in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Switzerland, Australia, China, Italy, Austria and Slovenia. Both Aldi Nord (as Trader Joe's) and Aldi Süd (as Aldi) also operate in the United States with 1,600 stores between them as of 2017,[11] and the U.S. is the only country to have both Aldi companies operating outside of Germany.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi


Lidl as well (albeit less widespread)


We have Aldi and we have Trader Joe's -- which is owned by the family of Theo Albrecht (Aldi Nord).

Trader Joe's sells all house-brand products aimed at a higher quality and price point.


Fascism as well (albeit less widespread)




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