CG: Shots Fired in the Grocery Price War
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Discount supermarket chain Aldi will be investing billions in the U.S. market over the next five years, while its fellow German-based rival Lidl prepares to open its first U.S. locations this week. But the biggest winner from this growing competition will be the U.S. consumer.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Support for Industry Focus comes from our friends at Rocket Mortgage Buy Quicken Loans. |
| 0:04.5 | You're confident when it comes to your work in life. |
| 0:07.0 | Rocket Mortgage gives you that same confidence when it comes to refinancing your existing mortgage |
| 0:11.1 | or buying a home. Let you understand all the details so you can |
| 0:14.6 | be confident that you're getting the right mortgage for you. Go to rocket mortgage.com |
| 0:18.5 | slash fool. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm your host, Vincent Shen, and it is Tuesday, June 13th. |
| 0:30.0 | Last week, we looked at the S1 IPO filing for Meel Kit Delivery Pioneer Blue Apron. |
| 0:36.1 | If you consider that an example of growing competition in the groceries industry, |
| 0:40.9 | at least on one end of the spectrum. Our main topic for this |
| 0:44.2 | episode comes from the opposite end in more traditional brick and mortar |
| 0:48.0 | expansion from the Germany German grocery chain Aldi. So I'll also spend a few minutes talking about interesting news from |
| 0:55.4 | Walmart and Microsoft in addition to the expansion that we're expecting from Aldi. And |
| 1:01.7 | joining me via Skype today is full |
| 1:03.9 | com contributor Dan Klein thanks for being here Dan. Oh hey Vince thanks for having me |
| 1:08.3 | sure thing so kicking off because we have a lot to talk about today, let's start with Microsoft. |
| 1:15.6 | Back in March I covered major developments in the video game industry and one of those was |
| 1:21.0 | the expected launch of a console update from Microsoft, which was at the time just called Project |
| 1:27.6 | Scorpio. |
| 1:28.6 | So I want to circle back on that story since the Electronic Entertainment Expo has officially started this week and |
| 1:35.2 | Microsoft made its big announcement giving Project |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Motley Fool, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Motley Fool and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.