Aldi’s next Orange County store is opening Thursday, Nov. 30 in Santa Ana.

The grand opening celebration kicks off with a ribbon cutting at at 8:25 a.m. at 2830 S. Bristol St. Aldi is giving away “golden tickets” to the first 100 shoppers and ALDI reusable eco-friendly shopping bags.

On the same day, Aldi is opening another store at 2121 W. Main Street in Alhambra.

Aldi, short for Albrecht Discount, sells duplicate versions of top-selling grocery brands. The chain claims it can save shoppers up to 50 percent on their grocery bill.

Customers walk through the aisles of the Aldi grocery store during its grand opening day event in Pico Rivera on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The location is the third Aldi in the area, with stores in Santa Fe Springs and Whittier. Customers and staff celebrated the launch a ribbon-cutting ceremony and gift card giveaways. (Michael Ares for the Whittier Daily News/SCNG)

An Aldi Fresh sign shows customers where their produce section is in the new Aldi discount supermarket in Buena Park. STEVEN GEORGES, CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER ///ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Sneak peek tour of the Aldi discount supermarket chain in Buena Park before their Grand Opening on Thursday. Aldi_Preview.0418 4/17/16

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Eco-friendly bags are offered to customers to shop with at the Aldi grocery store’s grand opening day event in Pico Rivera on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The location is the third Aldi in the area, with stores in Santa Fe Springs and Whittier. Customers and staff celebrated the launch a ribbon-cutting ceremony and gift card giveaways. (Michael Ares for the Whittier Daily News/SCNG)

Andrea Valdespino, 41, of Pico Rivera, picks out chicken breasts inside the Aldi grocery store during its grand opening day event in Pico Rivera on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The location is the third Aldi in the area, with stores in Santa Fe Springs and Whittier. Customers and staff celebrated the launch a ribbon-cutting ceremony and gift card giveaways. (Michael Ares for the Whittier Daily News/SCNG)

Customers walk through the aisles of the Aldi grocery store during its grand opening day event in Pico Rivera on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The location is the third Aldi in the area, with stores in Santa Fe Springs and Whittier. Customers and staff celebrated the launch a ribbon-cutting ceremony and gift card giveaways. (Michael Ares for the Whittier Daily News/SCNG)



Aldi adapts to meet consumer demand. Five years ago, stores did not sell Greek yogurt, now they do. Their store brand is on the left, while national brand Chobani is on the right. The copycat packaging is typical of Aldi’s in-store labels. (Nancy Luna, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Aldi keeps prices low by stocking grocery items in cardboard boxes on shelves. This means employees spend less time stocking shelves. STEVEN GEORGES, CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

People line up to enter an Aldi in Palm Springs. The first 8 Aldi stores in Southern California opened in March 2016. (Nancy Luna, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Typical Aldi openings mean bumper to bumper shopping carts as shoppers jam the aisles. (Register file photo)

Aldi may sell a limited amount of groceries, but the chain says it is constantly evolving its assortment to keep up with demand. For example, an employee in Garden Grove said the chain is adding Black Angus meats. (Nancy Luna, Orange County Register/SCNG)



Aldi’s private label Almond milk. (Nancy Luna, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Trader Joe’s Pita Bite Crackers (right) sell for $2.69 for a 6-oz box; Aldi’s sea salt Savoritz in-house brand are $1.99 at a store in Garden Grove. (Nancy Luna, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Larry Pineda, of Garden Grove, chooses dairy products at Aldi in Garden Grove on Thursday, September 2, 2017. There are plans for more store openings. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

German discounter Aldi arrived in the western United States over a year ago with its low cost, quality groceries with lots of private-label items. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

German discounter Aldi arrived in the western United States over a year ago with its low cost, quality groceries with lots of private-label items. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)



Tom Cindel, group director of operations and logistics for Aldi Moreno Valley, shows off the Aldi store in Garden Grove on Thursday, September 28, 2017. There are plans for more store openings in Southern California. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Enrique Escuer, of Westminster, shops at the Aldi Garden Grove store on Thursday September, 28, 2017. Escuer is from Spain and was glad to see a familiar European grocery store. German discounter Aldi came to the western United States over a year ago with it’s stores of low cost groceries stocked mostly with it’s private-label items. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

An Aldi employee stocks produce in Garden Grove on Thursday, September 28, 2017. German discounter Aldi opened stores in the western United States over a year ago with low-cost private-label groceries. There are plans for many more store openings. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

German discounter Aldi opened stores in the western United States over a year ago with low-cost private-label groceries. There are plans for many more store openings. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Hennesys Galarca works the cash register at the German discounter Aldi in Garden Grove on Thursday, September 28, 2017. Aldi came to the western United States over a year ago with it’s stores full of lots of private-label groceries. Its success has inspired plans to open many more stores in Southern California. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)



Stores are four to five times smaller than traditional supermarkets and employ roughly one-fourth of the staff. Like other California stores, these two stores will offer more produce and a large assortment of dairy and bakery items.

“ALDI stores (in Santa Ana and Alhambra) will also feature a modern design, open ceilings, natural lighting and environmentally-friendly building materials – such as recycled materials, energy-saving refrigeration and LED lighting,” the company said in a statement.

The two Southern California stores are the 45th and 46th supermarkets to open since Aldi launched its first stores in the West in March 2016. By the end of the year, Aldi plans to have 54 stores open in Southern California.

Other stores are planned for Westminster, Chula Vista, Monrovia, Laguna Woods, La Habra, Glendora, Oxnard and Escondido.

The chain, with its U.S. headquarters in Batavia, Ill., is shoring up forces in untapped markets as it enters a head-on battle with Walmart, Amazon and Lidl. The latter is Aldi’s biggest European foe — a discounter with a similar assortment of inexpensive, private-label goods.

It opened its first U.S. stores in Virginia and North Carolina over the summer.

Next year, Aldi said it would open 20-25 stores in Southern California.

Growth in California is part an aggressive $3.4 billion plan for Aldi to grow its nationwide footprint to 2,500 stores by 2022. The chain currently operates about 1,700 stores.