ALDI operates a full-format grocery store at 8788 Navajo Road in San Carlos, San Diego, the chain's first location within city limits when it opened in 2018 near the intersection of Navajo Road and Jaffe Court in the 92119 ZIP. The German-founded chain stocks roughly 90 percent private-label products across produce, dairy, frozen, bakery, meat, and pantry aisles, with rotating ALDI Finds endcaps introducing limited-run specialty items each week. A San Diego County health inspection score of 97 out of 100 reflects the store's cold-chain management across refrigerated cases, freezer doors, and the open produce wall. Shoppers filling out a weekly grocery run with specialty cuts and house-made sausages add a stop at Iowa Meat Farms on Mission Gorge Road in Grantville, whose full-service butcher counter carries items outside the ALDI format. Navajo Road runs the commercial spine of San Carlos, connecting the Cowles Mountain trailhead crowd on the north end to the Lake Murray Boulevard residential core on the south, and the store sits at the midpoint of that corridor. SNAP/EBT acceptance, Instacart delivery, and curbside pickup expand access for households across the San Carlos, Del Cerro, and Allied Gardens sub-communities that feed into Navajo Road. The quarter-deposit cart system and bag-your-own checkout format keep labor overhead low, passing through to shelf pricing on staples including milk, eggs, bread, and fresh produce. Organic product lines span dairy, canned goods, frozen vegetables, and bagged salads under the SimplyNature and Never Any! private labels. Post-hike traffic from Cowles Mountain filters south on Navajo Road past the store, and Cowles Mountain Coffee a few blocks north anchors the grab-and-go caffeine stop on the same strip. Free parking fills a shared lot with neighboring retailers, accessible from both Navajo Road and the CA-125 freeway via the Exit 20B interchange.