Feb 1
2 min

USA: Aldi supports Gulf Coast expansion with new regional HQ and DC

Discount Retail Chain Aldi USA (German family owned) has opened a new distribution center to support its growth across the Gulf Coast region. The fast-growing discount grocer unveiled its new regional headquarters and distribution center in Loxley, Alabama, which will ultimately serve as many as 100 Aldi stores across the Gulf Coast. Aldi currently operates 30 stores in the Gulf Coast, having opened 20 stores in the area last year. It plans to add another 13 stores in 2023. T

Poland: Lidl rolling out electronic shelf labels

Feb 1
2 min

Europe

Poland: Lidl rolling out electronic shelf labels

Discount Retail Chain Lidl Poland (owned by the German Schwarz Group) has been testing Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) for a short time. In February 2022, the ESL could be found in only a few Lidl stores. Lidl declared then that within a dozen or so months it wanted to equip several hundred of its facilities with electronic prices, and ultimately all of them. ESL appear in other Lidl Polska stores. "Currently, we have used this solution in 16 facilities", informed Aleksandra Rob

USA: Aldi opens new regional HQ in fast-growing region

Feb 1
2 min

Americas

USA: Aldi opens new regional HQ in fast-growing region

Aldi opens new regional HQ in fast-growing region of Southeastern U.S. in Loxley, Alabama. Fast-growing retailer Aldi said it has strengthened its presence in the Southeast with the opening this week of a new regional headquarters at its 564,000-square-foot distribution center in Loxley that will serve up to 100 Aldi stores. It is the Batavia, Illinois -based retailer’s 26th DC in the U.S. — the German-owned company has extensive operations overseas — and its sixth in the Sou

UK: Lidl to invest £4bn. into British food industry

Jan 30
2 min

Europe

UK: Lidl to invest £4bn. into British food industry

Lidl is set to make a £4 billion investment into the British food industry this year to support suppliers across the country. This looks to accelerate the discount grocer’s initial spending pans of £15bn between 2020 and 2025, as this investment is set to boost the expected figure to £17bn. Lidl currently has two thirds of its core produce sourced from the UK and works directly with over 650 suppliers across the country. “The farmers and producers that supply us, some of whic

Netherlands: Action store engine running at full speed: opening one every other day

Jan 27
3 min

Europe

Netherlands: Action store engine running at full speed: opening one every other day

Discount Non-food Retail Chain Action (owned by the 3iGroup), increasingly chooses locations just outside the inner cities, in the districts and neighbourhoods of larger and smaller cities. The number has passed 2,263 stores in Europe since January 1, of which 407 are located in the Netherlands. Action is busy expanding the number of stores at a rapid pace. In the press release for 2022 published today, she reports that she has added 280 new stores, which is more than in 2021

USA: Aldi expands its stores and digital commerce platform

Jan 27
2 min

Americas

USA: Aldi expands its stores and digital commerce platform

Discount Retail Chain Aldi USA (German family owned) opens multiple stores this week. Further the discount retail grocer is also working on a new online shopping portal that would drive shoppers through its own channels, rather than solely through third-party platforms. Aldi will open six new stores this week, as the discount grocery continues its swift expansion around the country. “Our stores are designed to make grocery shopping smarter, faster and easier, and we’ve been v

Jan 27
2 min

Europe

Italy: Penny opens new logistics hub

Discount Retail Chain Penny Italy (owned by the German REWE Group) opens the doors of its new logistics DC in Cascine di Buti, Pisa, destined to serve the discount brand's stores in Tuscany and central-northern Italy, for a total of over 90 stores. The works, which began in May 2021 and ended just over a year and a half later, have grounded an excellence, equal to an investment of 32 million euros. The building of the Distribution Center, of about 23,000m2, was built on an ar

Germany: Aldi Süd reaches 2,000 store milestone

Jan 25
2 min

Europe

Germany: Aldi Süd reaches 2,000 store milestone

Discount Retail Chain Aldi Süd in Germany (privately owned by a German family) has announced that it has reached the milestone of 2,000 stores in Germany, with the landmark store set to open in Hamminkeln-Mehrhoog on January 26th, 2023. “Opening the 2000th Aldi Süd store is something special for us," commented Jan Riemann, director real estate at Aldi Süd. "For more than 100 years we have been making sustainable shopping affordable for everyone in the Aldi Süd stores and are

USA: Lidl opens largest store in Long Island, New York

Jan 25
1 min

Europe

USA: Lidl opens largest store in Long Island, New York

Discount Retail Chain Lidl USA (owned by the German Schwarz Group) has set its sights on the East Coast of the United States. Lidl recently opened the doors of its newest store location in the state of New York. Located in Deer Park, Long Island, the store is Lidl’s largest in the region. According to Long Island Business News, the store, standing at 32,000 square feet, is part of a US $12 million project that is Lidl’s first ground-up store development on Long Island. The lo

Research: Aldi is the new German advertising darling

Jan 25
1 min

Europe

Research: Aldi is the new German advertising darling

Since 2020, APG, BBDO, Deloitte and Yougov have been conducting a long-term study exclusively for HORIZONT Online to collect the advertising favorites of Germans i.e. the brands that have become firmly established in people's minds in the long term due to their positively perceived advertising. In the last quarter of the past year, Aldi was able to take first place thanks to its Christmas campaign and is now enthroned at the top together with long-term leader Haribo. Deutsche

Jan 25
3 min

Europe

Serbia: Lidl a leader in green energy

Discount Retail Chain Lidl Serbia (owned by the German Schwarz Group) opened its first store in Serbia a little over 4 years ago. It was big news. People were looking forward to new brands and lower prices. Those who know Lidl were not surprised by the general "craze" for this discount trade chain, but were surprised by the company's attitude towards the country in which it operates. Lidl not only has a high level of awareness about environmental protection, but has devoted i

Russia: Russian hard discount chain Blizkiy opens 100th store in Far East

Jan 24
1 min

Asia

Russia: Russian hard discount chain Blizkiy opens 100th store in Far East

Far Eastern network of hard discounters "Blizkiy" reaches a milestone by opening their 100th store this week. The discount retailer plans to open at least 24 new stores for this year. Within 2 years, the Blizky food retail chain has grown from 9 to 100 stores. According to the CEO Vladislav Grebenyuk Grebenyuk the number of customers in the network increased by 40% in 2022 compared to 2021. A new type of consumer has appeared - "a new economical one". Such customers want to m

Germany: Aldi expands and automate its logistics site in Mörfelden-Walldorf

Jan 21
2 min

Europe

Germany: Aldi expands and automate its logistics site in Mörfelden-Walldorf

Discount Retail Chain Aldi Germany will build a new automated distribution centre for frozen goods, fruit and vegetables in the northeast of Mörfelden-Walldorf. Aldi Süd plans to expand its logistics location in the northeast of Mörfelden-Walldorf over the next two years. This was announced by the discounter in a statement. The regional company Mörfelden will be expanded into a regional and automated distribution center for frozen goods as well as fruit and vegetables. Constr

Jan 18
2 min

Europe

Spain: Aldi will open a new DC in 2024

Discount Retail Chain Aldi Spain (German family owned), which announced that it will open next year its new logistics center, located in the Eucolsa Polygon, next to Sepes and very close to Parc Sagunt I. Thus, the German discount chain, which has benefited in the last year from an increase in its market share in Spain (1.5%, according to data from the consultancy Kantar), will have operational in 2024 a DC of more than 30,000 square meters of surface that will allow it to ma

Mongolia: Non-food variety discount chain Fix Price enters the Mongolian market

Jan 18
1 min

Asia

Mongolia: Non-food variety discount chain Fix Price enters the Mongolian market

Russian variety discount chain Fix Price has opened the first two stores in mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar. The stores which carry about 1,100 SKUs were opened according to the franchising scheme. The goods will be delivered from the DC in Novosibirsk, which is approx. 2,700 km away from Ulaanbaatar. "Plans for further expansion of the network in Mongolia will be adopted on the basis of an analysis of the first results of work," said Vladimir Pogonin, director of the Fix Pri

UK: Aldi and Lidl store openings show fierce inter-discounter rivalry

Jan 16
2 min

Europe

UK: Aldi and Lidl store openings show fierce inter-discounter rivalry

A battle royal is raging among the discounters as they fight for the best sites in the lucrative south east of London. The two German discounters have been going toe-to-toe when it comes to UK store expansion programmes. Aldi opened 43 stores in 2022, while Lidl opened 51, according to data from location analytics firm Maximise UK. But the numbers in the south east were even closer: nearly one in three stores opened by each discounter in 2022 was in the south east of England,

Jan 14
1 min

Europe

Spain: Aldi to open 50 stores in 2023

Aldi Espana has announced the opening of around 50 new stores in Spain in 2023, which represents an acceleration of its expansion drive in the country, following the opening of over 40 stores in 2020 and 2021 respectively. Growth will focus in the regions Galicia, Balearics, Canaries and Asturias and will include the opening of Aldi´s first store in the autonomous city of Melilla in North Africa. Aldi ended 2022 operating 394 stores in Spain with a total sales area of over 44

USA: Discount variety chain Five Below to open 200+ stores

Jan 14
2 min

Americas

USA: Discount variety chain Five Below to open 200+ stores

Five Below has laid out ambitious store plans for 2023. The tween and teen discounter said it plans to open the most stores in its history — more than 200 locations — in fiscal 2023. It also plans to convert more than 400 stores to its new “Five Beyond” format, which contains an in-store shop featuring higher-priced items. The concept, now in place in some 250 locations, evolved from the chain's "Ten Below" pilot, which featured a section of merchandise priced above the retai

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