Aldi's Supermarkets Coming To The Valley,Building A Warehouse on 303/Indian School Rd. (coupon, bankruptcy)

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

I doubt they'd move into an Albertson's. Aldi stores are generally only about 10,000 sq ft of floor space. According to Google Albertson's are an average of about 45,000

The Goodyear store zoning request (for the store not the distribution center specifies a 22,000 sf store. I would think they are all going to be built off pretty much the same set of plans.

[LBTRS]

Originally Posted by DetroitN8V

Why do people insist on calling it “Aldi’s”? You wouldn’t say, Safeway’s, would you?

Probably because that is what it is called in the title of this thread. I don't know if I've called it Aldi's in this thread but I don't know anything about the store other than what I've seen in this thread. If it is being called Aldi's in this thread it doesn't take a genus to figure why others are calling it that.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by LBTRS

Probably because that is what it is called in the title of this thread. I don't know if I've called it Aldi's in this thread but I don't know anything about the store other than what I've seen in this thread. If it is being called Aldi's in this thread it doesn't take a genus to figure why others are calling it that.

No genus needed. Fair enough. Come on, too easy! I agree though, I didn’t take note of the thread title.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by Ztonyg

A lot of people who are familiar with Aldi are from the Midwest. It's a Midwest thing to add an apostrophe and an "s" to the name of a store.

I'm from Michigan and the big stores when I lived there were "Kmart's," "Kroger's," "Meijer's", etc.

I’m from Michigan too and that’s just plain wrong. Kmart’s??! Nails on a chalkboard. Sorry!

[corydon]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

That's part of their business model. They have very few employees and very low overhead. That is how they keep prices down. It's not about being cheap, it's about saving their customers money buy having fewer expenses

No, the trash has to go somewhere, they put there expenses on somebody else. That is worse than cheap. I dumped it in the back of an aldi store.
And who wants to shop in a store where everything sits on pallets????

[MN-Born-n-Raised]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

The Goodyear store zoning request (for the store not the distribution center specifies a 22,000 sf store. I would think they are all going to be built off pretty much the same set of plans.

From the Aldi's's's's website, they normally have a 12,000 sf store totaling 5 isles. So it seems the Goodyear location is getting one of the bigger stores with more fresh produce. IMHO, the lack of fresh produce was the major downside of their smaller stores. Every time I shop at any grocery store, I am looking for fresh produce. So for me, the original Aldi layout was only used to stock up on can goods. Based off of Goodyar demographics, I would have expected a bigger store. In fact, read Aldi's new store design mimics Whole Foods - Business Insider .

"The discount grocery chain Aldi is taking aim at Whole Foods with a new store design.... The retailer is spending more than $1.6 billion to revamp stores and open locations with the updated format...."

My lack of confidence with Aldi success in the Phoenix area marketplace was based off of that smaller footprint. It seems the new stores are going to be bigger and better.Walmart is taking notice by aggressively reducing their prices in some of their markets. See https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/wal-...ery-aisle.html

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by Ztonyg

A lot of people who are familiar with Aldi are from the Midwest. It's a Midwest thing to add an apostrophe and an "s" to the name of a store.

I'm from Michigan and the big stores when I lived there were "Kmart's," "Kroger's," "Meijer's", etc.

Nope. Never heard any of those. I also say Aldi.

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by corydon

No, the trash has to go somewhere, they put there expenses on somebody else. That is worse than cheap. I dumped it in the back of an aldi store.
And who wants to shop in a store where everything sits on pallets????

As successful as they are, I don't think people mind the pallets.

They don't usually have a lot of trash, either (not sure where trash is even discussed here). Since they don't give free bags (you can buy them for 5 or 10 cents) people take the boxes the products are stocked in as they empty and use them to carry their stuff.

[nmnita]

does it really make a difference if it is Aldi's; Aldis's or whatever as long as we all know what we are talking about? Here the signs out front of the stores say Aldis.

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by nmnita

does it really make a difference if it is Aldi's; Aldis's or whatever as long as we all know what we are talking about? Here the signs out front of the stores say Aldis.

Look again. It's simply Aldi.

www.aldi.us