Aldi expands in New England

For seven years, the low-price German grocery chain called Aldi has been quietly doing business with a few locations in Connecticut. Now the company is making aggressive moves toward expanding in New England, including developing plans to build a 500,000-square-foot distribution center in South Windsor that would supply about 70 proposed stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Aldi hopes to break ground on the warehouse this spring and complete construction by the fall of 2008, said Bruce Persohn, vice president of the company s northeastern division.