Aldi fires $3.4 billion shot in US supermarket wars

This is the place for general and miscellaneous posts on topics which might extend past the boundaries of any specific region. No non-grocery posts.
pseudo3d
Posts: 3852
Joined: November 12th, 2015, 7:01 pm
Has thanked: 5 times
Been thanked: 77 times
Status: Offline

Re: Aldi fires $3.4 billion shot in US supermarket wars

Post by pseudo3d »

I think that Aldi still has a lot of room to grow in Texas, it can stand its ground against H-E-B though in most Texas markets (with the exception of really big cities) they have only have one store in the market each.
mbz321 wrote: Maybe there is too much competition from ethnic grocers or farmers markets in Southern California to make it work, or more time is needed for them to catch on, but like it or not, the 'conventional supermarket' business model is dying a slow death.
The "conventional supermarket" is dying...in California. The shrinkage of Ralphs and the combination of Vons and Albertsons do suggest that, but from what the West Coasters on RW say (Klkla, Storewanderer, CalItalian) the 2004 strike fundamentally changed shopping habits and there's more of a trend of "shopping around". Us on the southern/SE side of the United States (me, architect, wnetmacman) do have things like Aldi but also where H-E-B continues to roll on with stores ranging from 70k to 100k (even for the non-Plus stores), with Kroger building similarly-sized stores. No one is building 70k square foot stores in California, that's for sure.
Post Reply