Aldi to Open More Than 225 Stores in 2025

In early February 2025, Aldi announced a major benchmark as part of its five-year growth plan to add 800 new stores by 2028. According to the grocer, it plans to add over 225 stores in 2025. That’s up from the approximately 120 stores Aldi opened in 2023, and it represents the largest number of stores Aldi has added in one year in the United States in its history.

A large number of these 225+ openings in 2025 will come from converted Southeastern Grocers stores. In 2023, Aldi purchased the parent company of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket, and since then Aldi has begun converting some of those properties to Aldi stores. The grocer says approximately 100 such converted properties will open in 2025.

Regarding the remaining Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores, Aldi had this to say:

As part of the strategy, Aldi has closed a transaction to divest approximately 170 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores that are not part of the Aldi conversion plan to a consortium including C&S Wholesale Grocers, Southeastern Grocers senior leadership and private investors. This transaction allows ALDI to create a focused conversion portfolio in the Southeast as it progresses its expansion plans across the country.

We’d long wondered if Aldi was planning to run the larger format grocery stores. Now we have our answer.

Aldi’s press release also noted its growth strategy in other locations. It plans to “add to its established footprint in the Northeast and Midwest regions, grow its presence in the West with more stores in Southern California and Arizona, and enter new communities, like Las Vegas.”

This last location represents a new, if not unsurprising, frontier for Aldi. The grocer has been putting down roots in Southern California and Arizona in the last few years, so expansion into nearby Nevada makes sense.

You can read the full Aldi press release here.