Discount grocery store chain Aldi may have sold most of the unconverted Winn-Dixie and Harvey’s locations the company bought last year, but they’re still moving forward with the locations that were in progress. The company has 10 more coming to Florida, according to their grand openings page, including a new listing for one in Deerfield Beach.
About 220 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores will be converted to the smaller, simpler Aldi format by 2027, Aldi said. The company plans to open 225 new store locations in the United States in 2025, the most they’ve ever opened in a single year.
The no-frills German grocery chain 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.
In Volusia County, an Aldi opened in Deltona on May 1 at a previous Winn-Dixie location, but plans for a converted Winn-Dixie in Port Orange hit a snag when, on May 9, the city’s building and fire departments marked the application as “deficient.”
What Aldi stores have opened in Florida in 2025?
Several Aldi Florida locations, most of them former Winn-Dixies, have opened this year, including:
What Aldi stores are opening in Florida?
On Aldi’s grand opening page, the chain lists 10 new locations, most of them former Winn-Dixie sites:
Several more Winn-Dixie conversions are still ongoing, including locations in Leesburg, Ormond Beach, Port St. John, and Sebastian. The company also continues to open brand new Aldi stores, such as another being built in Port Orange.
What is Aldi?
Aldi is an international chain of no-frills 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 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, including the new Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores, are operated by Aldi Süd. Aldi Nord also owns Trader Joe’s.
Aldi U.S. is based in Batavia, Illinois.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Aldi doesn’t own Winn-Dixie, but it continues converting stores in Florida. Here’s where
Reporting by C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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