Lindl is coming to San Antonio (stores, future)

[rynetwo]

Originally Posted by elnina

Nah, Aldi is doing pretty good. At a time when the rest of the industry is really struggling, Aldi is thriving and investing.
Aldi, the world’s #5 retailer owned by Aldi Sud, embarked on a $5 billion plan last year to remodel and expand its U.S. chain to 2,500 by the end of 2022
Since announcing its growth plan in June 2017, it has added more than 140 new stores from coast to coast, opening its 1,800th U.S. store in August last year.
By 2022, Aldi said it will be the third largest U.S. grocer by store count with 2,500 locations, behind Walmart and Kroger.
Currently, 40 million consumers shop its stores each month, and the grocer hopes to serve 100 million customers monthly by the end of 2022. Aldi U.S. is just beginning to explore grocery delivery through a partnership with Instacart in four cities.
While Aldi U.S. does not release sales figures since it is part of a private company, its U.S. sales have doubled the last five years and the goal remains to double sales again in the next five years.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/groc...footprint.html

Aldi is doing pretty good around the world too:
https://www.mashed.com/121443/aldi-l...ike-countries/

I guess I was trying to keep this thread on track because I was not talking Aldi. (the thread was not originally about that store)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittai.../#64561b0b29c8

[miche111e]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

There is an Aldi in pflugerville. It’s very small and when I went I didn’t understand the draw. They may be testing the waters in Texas and not ready to jump in to San Antonio.

We just visited this store today. As soon as we walked in, we had good memories of Germany because the layout is virtually the same. Of course, most of the products are what you can get at most stores here, and we didn’t have a cooler so we couldn’t get cold goods. But it was a very pleasant walk down memory lane.

[elnina]

Originally Posted by rynetwo

I guess I was trying to keep this thread on track because I was not talking Aldi. (the thread was not originally about that store)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittai.../#64561b0b29c8

Yeah. You're right, but there isn't much to write about Lidl, because they have only few stores and all on the east side.

[zcondren]

Lidl isn't coming to Texas any longer. https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/arc...box=1557423776

[RadiantBaby]

It's tough for the new guy to go head-to-head with HEB. What they do, they do well.

[miche111e]

Originally Posted by zcondren

Lidl isn't coming to Texas any longer. https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/arc...box=1557423776

Ugh. I like HEB — grew up shopping at HEB — but I really wish there was more variety, especially on the NW side.

[elnina]

Originally Posted by miche111e

Ugh. I like HEB — grew up shopping at HEB — but I really wish there was more variety, especially on the NW side.

Yes. Not very healthy market. HEB does great here (you wonder?), but I would like to see what others have to offer. HEB created monopoly and market control.
Perfect competition is a market structure that features low barriers to entry, identical products with no differentiation, an unlimited number of producers and consumers, and a perfectly elastic demand curve.
Competition is useful because it reveals actual customer demand and induces sellers to provide service quality levels and price levels that customers want.
In San Antonio, we have not enough competitors to do so. Lidl or Aldi - I would welcome any choices to break up the Butt monopoly. San Antonio is a big city, it deserves more shopping variety.
https://www.classlawgroup.com/antitr...ices/monopoly/

[yukon]

San Antonio has a great grocery market compared to El Paso.

[Big A]

Originally Posted by elnina

Yes. Not very healthy market. HEB does great here (you wonder?), but I would like to see what others have to offer. HEB created monopoly and market control.
Perfect competition is a market structure that features low barriers to entry, identical products with no differentiation, an unlimited number of producers and consumers, and a perfectly elastic demand curve.
Competition is useful because it reveals actual customer demand and induces sellers to provide service quality levels and price levels that customers want.
In San Antonio, we have not enough competitors to do so. Lidl or Aldi - I would welcome any choices to break up the Butt monopoly. San Antonio is a big city, it deserves more shopping variety.
https://www.classlawgroup.com/antitr...ices/monopoly/

There was Kroger, Albertsons and Handy Andy once upon a time here.

[davi78239]

So maybe Aldi can step up and come in now that Lidl isn’t? I too would like more variety here not named Walmart. I think we’re too big of a city not to have more than one grocery store. Yes, there’s Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods as well but I speak of like Kroger, Randalls, Publix...