Aldi fans, put your quarters away. Grand openings for new locations in Bushnell, Leesburg, New Port Richey and Tampa previously announced for Aug. 14 have been moved, the company said.
The Tampa location is now scheduled to open on Thursday, Aug. 28, and the other three will open on Thursday, Sept. 4, Matt Thon, Haines City Division Vice President, said in an email.
“We look forward to welcoming the community to the new stores and want to be sure they have the latest and most accurate information,” Thon said. “We’ll be sure to stay close with an updated timeline once available.”
An Aldi location in Lehigh Acres is still scheduled for an Aug. 14 grand opening, according to an Aug. 7 email from a company spokesperson, and a Jacksonville location is due to open Aug. 28 per the company’s website. Meanwhile, new coming-soon locations for Englewood and Gainesville have been added to the list, making at least 19 new Aldi locations in progress in Florida.
Last month, new locations for the no-frills grocery chain launched in Odessa, Crawfordville, Jensen Beach, Westlake, Port Orange and St. Cloud, part of least 28 new locations that have opened their doors this year.
Aldi plans to open 225 new store locations in the United States in 2025, the most they’ve ever opened in a single year, and 800 by the end of 2028. Most of them are Winn-Dixie conversions started during the brief period when the company bought the parent company of Winn-Dixie and Harvey’s Supermarket but before they sold most of them back.
When are the new Aldi locations opening in Florida?
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Aug. 14: Lehigh Acres, Winn-Dixie Shopping Center, 61 Bell Boulevard North
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Aug. 28:
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Jacksonville, Briarwood Village Place, 8775 Old Kings Road South
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Tampa, Main Street at Hampton Lakes, 13016 Race Track Road
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What Aldi stores are opening in 2025 in Florida?
There are at least 13 more Aldi locations coming soon to Florida as of July 29, according to Aldi’s grand opening page, many of them former Winn-Dixie sites:
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Aventura, Promenade Shops, 20417 Biscayne Boulevard
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Deerfield Beach, Crossroads Shopping Center, 2301 W Sample Road, Building #2
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Englewood, 1951 South McCall Road (former Winn-Dixie)
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Englewood, 4100 South McCall Road (former Winn-Dixie)
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Gainesville, 300 Southwest 16th Ave. (former Winn-Dixie)
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Milton, Dogwood Park Shopping Center, 5428 Dogwood Drive (former Winn-Dixie)
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Orlando, Metro West Marketplace, 1403 South Hiawassee Road
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Port Orange, Riverwood Shopping Center, 4025 S. Nova Road (former Winn-Dixie)
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Sarasota, Southeast Plaza, 4230 Bee Ridge Road (former Winn-Dixie)
Several more Winn-Dixie conversions are still ongoing, including locations in Sebastian and Vero Beach. scheduled for early 2026.
What is Aldi?
Aldi is an international chain of no-frills discount grocery stores with no coupons and few, if any, big-name brand products.
Unlike Winn-Dixie, Aldi does not offer a meat counter, a deli, a pharmacy, a bakery, or a liquor store. There are no elaborate displays, no overhead music, a much smaller selection with few duplicates of item brands, lots of house brands, and fewer open hours. The goal of all of these is to keep prices low, the company says.
You pay a quarter to get a shopping cart (you get it back when you return the cart), and you bag your own groceries with empty boxes from the store, bags you bought there or containers from home.
There is a double-your-money-back “Twice is Nice” guarantee on its store brand products, and the chain regularly offers “FINDS,” limited-time offers that change weekly or seasonally, and other discounted deals. The company does not offer a membership program.
The “Aisle of Shame” is Aldi fans’ nickname for the aisles of limited-supply deals in each location.
The Aldi chain was founded by Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946 (Aldi is an abbreviated form of “Albrecht Diskont”). After the brothers got into an argument over whether the stores should sell cigarettes, in 1960 they split the company into Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd, which both operate stores internationally in different regions. U.S. stores are operated by Aldi Süd. Aldi Nord also owns Trader Joe’s.
Aldi acquired Southeastern Grocers Inc (SEG), the parent company of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets, and announced an ambitious five-year, $9 billion plan to add 800 stores nationwide through new stores and store conversions. In less than a year, it turned around and sold most of them to a consortium of private investors led by SEG president Anthony Hucker, but kept the ones where conversion plans were underway.
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Aldi grand openings in Florida pushed off to end of August, September
