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The clean-up on aisle five could be blood, not apple juice.
That’s because the battle for U.S. grocery store dominance is heating up with the announcement that German discount supermarket chain Aldi is opening 225 new stores in 2025. It’s part of the retailer’s $9 billion investment to add 800 new stores across the U.S. over the next four years.
The food behemoth is expanding rapidly thanks to its acquisition of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket, as well as Southeastern Grocers. According to Forbes, Aldi’s nationwide expansion will unfold over the next five years, adding 330 stores across the Midwest and Northeast. It will also open more stores in Southern California and Phoenix—and expand into new cities, including Las Vegas. It will also open 400 stores across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Like fellow German-owned company Trader Joe’s (both are owned by different factions of the German Albrecht family, though they do not share revenue or business practices), Aldi’s has a unique layout and style that has proven popular with the US market. Many of their new stores will change their format to suit the Aldi layout. By the end of the expansion, Aldi is expected to own 3,200 stores across the US.
In December, a federal judge sided with the Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general of eight states and Washington, D.C. in their lawsuit to block Kroger‘s (NYSE:KR) proposed $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons (NYSE:ACI) on anticompetitive grounds. The merger would have been the largest proposed supermarket merger in the nation’s history had it gone through.
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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) recently announced that it was reintroducing and expanding its Amazon Fresh stores and adding more Whole Foods stores to take a bite out of the US grocery business by leveraging its massive Prime membership.
Soaring food prices have driven more shoppers to discount supermarkets such as Aldi, Lidl, and Trader Joe’s. They save money by carrying fewer items, having smaller stores, and employing fewer staff than their larger competitors. The narrower selection of items allows Aldi to purchase products from suppliers in larger volumes at a cheaper price. However, increased transportation costs, labor, and commodities have challenged all supermarkets. Part of Aldi’s strategy is its economies of scale. More stores mean more sales and ultimately more profit.
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Manufacturing its own brand products also allows Aldis to make them cheaper than the better-known national brands, while manufacturing them at higher volumes allows Aldi to negotiate lower prices with its suppliers.
“Once food price goes up, it tends to stay up,” Claudia Sahm, chief economist at New Century Advisors, told CNBC last month. “The inflation may come back down, so you don’t see the big price increases. But outside of widespread depression, we don’t tend to see prices falling across the board.”
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