Posted on 05/05/2023 6:45:34 AM PDT by dennisw
The grocer plans to open 35 stores in the first quarter alone |
Batavia, Ill.,-based Aldi is adding 120 new stores this year and will have more than 2,400 stores nationwide by the end of the year.
This year’s planned expansion builds on a strong year in 2022 when Aldi opened and remodeled 139 stores, welcomed approximately 9.4 million new customers and drove double-digit growth year-over-year as shoppers sought relief from soaring food prices. The grocer is on track to continue that momentum this year, opening 35 stores in the first quarter alone and welcoming 5.3 million new customers to its stores as of April 2023.
Aldi new store openings will span the continental U.S., including the rapidly growing Southeast region where Aldi recently opened its 26th regional headquarters and distribution center in Loxley, Ala., to help support new stores in the area. This year, Aldi will add stores in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, new markets for the grocer.
The brick-and-mortar expansion is part of a larger omnichannel experience designed to make grocery shopping as convenient and enjoyable as possible, no matter how customers prefer to shop, whether in-store, through curbside pickup or via delivery through shop.ALDI.us or through ecommerce partners DoorDash and Instacart.
As part of its larger commitment to sustainability, the grocer is enhancing new and existing stores with eco-friendly features, including installing rooftop solar panels and eliminating plastic shopping bags. Aldi also is implementing environmentally friendly refrigerants in its stores, an important move to reduce carbon emissions that earned the grocer recognition from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) GreenChill program.
As part of this national expansion, Aldi will add nearly 2,000 new employees to support the additional store count.
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Aldi’s growth strategy is in the bag.
A thriving business? Don’t let Brandon know about it!
The bag they make you pay for and bring along yourself.
I like Aldi's and since I live in a college down, my Aldi's is like a mini-United Nations with all of the different international families who shop there.
The economy is miserable. Lots of retail is dying. Whole Foods just shut down a very expensive to build out store in San Fran Sicko.
BUT Aldis is doing great and expanding. I bought some frozen Ahi Tuna there a few days ago. It was very high quality. As it defrosted it hardly put out any water. The effective price was about $6.50 per lb. It comes in a 12oz package.
We got a new Aldi a few months ago. They have self checkout but at least, unlike WallyWorld, they don’t hassle you going out the door.
I’m assuming that Aldi is smart enough to not open new locations in cesspools that other retailers are currently wisely abandoning.
The milk is amazing, and much of their items are secretly organic or local (like the milk). The red bag chicken is great as well!!!!!!!!!
Aldi, like Sam's Club, never had shopping bags.
I love their ahi tuna, too. We go there regularly, they have a lot of good products reasonably priced.
“Batavia, Ill.,-based Aldi”
Aldi is a German company. Perhaps their US subsidiary is based in Batavia.
“Aldi, like Sam’s Club, never had shopping bags.”
They usually have empty carboard boxes. I grab one and put my items in it. Or I have shopping bags in my car anyway.
“The bag they make you pay for and bring along yourself.”
Smart move is just to ask them for cardboard boxes, they’ll give you those for free, since they’ll just have to break them down and pack them up to dispose of anyway.
Yeah, some of their stuff is good quality. Others, (like some of the prepared food/knockoff items) not so much. Just have to learn what is good and what to avoid.
Haven't tried the tuna yet, but we will. It's been hit or miss for us with Aldi. I'm not impressed with their ground beef, and this past week we tried some of their ravioli and tortellini. All of them were disgusting.
“I love their ahi tuna, too.......”
I say their Ahi was recently harvested and recently packaged. It is as fresh as frozen can be. If it had been sitting in frozen warehouses for months, it would put off more water as it defrosted.
Plus it tasted great (raw sashimi) and fresh. I am going to buy some more.
But saying they are now eliminating plastic shopping bags is like saying "Sprite is now caffeine free!" You mean, the same as it always has been?
I’ve been to places in Lancaster PA area, which are similar to Aldi’s. They have bags, they do the bagging, and your checkout is a girl in a bonnet.
They don’t have everything...and they don’t always have the best price. However, by and large, they have insanely low prices. You figure out the best day to go, for what you want. They’re pretty predictable.
The expense comes from buying a bigger home freezer to stash all the bargains you can’t resist.
Is Aldi’s that store where they don’t have bags for your groceries?
I think there’s one about 6 miles or so from me. Never go there.
I only recently started shopping there. Haven’t tried their meat since I always go to a small town meat market and check their sales every Monday
But the quality and variety of Aldis other items I find cheaper and on par with store brands
We’ve been going about twice a month now. Haven’t been to a supermarket since
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