Theo Albrecht save money." Theodor Albrecht died 24 July 2010, in his home town of Essen, Germany. Theo Albrecht Theodor Paul "Theo" Albrecht (; 28 March 1922 – 24 July 2010) was a German entrepreneur, who in 2010 was ranked by Forbes as the 31st richest person in the world, with a net worth of $16.7 billion. He owned and was the CEO of the Aldi Nord discount supermarket chain. In the US he owned the Trader Joe's specialty grocery store chain. His brother Karl Albrecht owned the Aldi Süd discount supermarket chain. The two chains originally were a single family enterprise
GB (supermarket) and Wallonia were sold to an independent franchise together with Champion supermarkets, which became re-branded, as "Carrefour Market-Groupe Mestdagh". As of May 2013, there are 58 GB supermarkets left in Belgium, 28 Champion stores in Wallonia, and 431 GB stores have already become Carrefour Market. GB Group had several different supermarket stores: GB (supermarket) GB ("Grand Bazar") was a Belgian supermarket chain, until 2000 owned by the GIB Group when it was taken over by the Carrefour Group. In 1958 the first Super GB is created and opened. In 1961 the first GB hypermarkets are created under the name of