Aldi USA has enlisted Plymouth Meeting-based Fameco Real Estate to identify sites. Rick Weinberg of Fameco is spearheading the effort. He tells GlobeSt.com the division "is seeking to purchase, lease or ground lease sites in community and regional shopping districts with convenient access to population centers of at least 35,000 within three miles." The new Aldi prototype, he says, is a 16,485-sf store with a minimum of 85 parking spaces.
A spokeswoman for the division of the Batavia, IL-based US subsidiary of the Germany-based international grocer declined to say how long the eight-per-year rollout would continue. She says the Center Valley division is "aggressively expanding" in these two states and that "specific locations have not been identified at this time."
Aldi, which has more than 5,000 stores in 16 countries, introduced its limited-assortment concept to the US in 1976. Aldi USA operates 41 units in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and has more than 800 units in 26 states from Kansas to the East Coast. Nearly 90% of the self-described "no frills" grocer's products are sold under an Aldi private label.
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