Discount grocer Aldi said it will reopen 30 of the 66 former Bottom Dollar Foods stores it acquired in Pennsylvania, South Jersey and northeast Ohio after Delhaize shut the units last year.
Five stores in Philadelphia and 14 in the suburbs will reopen, while four city stores and 13 others in the suburbs will not reopen as Aldi units.
Aldi, the Illinois based U.S. division of Germany’s Albrecht grocery organization said in 2013 that it would spend $3 billion to add 650 new stores and 10,000 store, warehouse and office employees by 2018, bringing its total to nearly 2,000 units. The company “will continue working with” 36 ex-Bottom Dollar communities where it doesn’t plan new stores “to ensure a new transition,” Aldi CEO Jason Hart said in a statement.
The stores that Aldi plans to reopen are:
New Jersey – 156 West Browning Road, Bellmawr; 262C Route 130, Bordentown; 2110 Route 38, Cherry Hill; 440 U.S. Highway 130, East Windsor; 4225 South Route 130, Edgwater Park; 812 North Delsea Drive, Glassboro; 1636 Route 38, Lumberton; 2735 South Broad Street, Trenton; and 203 South Broad Street, Woodbury.
Pennsylvania – 154 Airport Road, Coatesville; 48 West Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne; 2990 Edgely Road, Levittown; 6119 North Broad Street, 3975 Castor Avenue, 3101 West Girard Avenue, 9303 Krewstown Road and 7900 Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA; 703 Route 113, Souderton; 1955 Davisville Road, Willow Grove; and stores in Aliquippa, Allentown, Butler, Carnegie, Homestead, McKeesport, Nazareth and Pittsburgh (Baldwin, Ross, McNight, Penn Avenue and Penn Hills).
Aldi will sell, sublet or otherwise dispose of these unwanted stores:
New Jersey – 1402 Route 130 North, Cinnaminson; 165 White Horse Pike, Clementon; 230 North Maple Avenue, Marlton; and 5200 Route 42, Turnersville.
Pennsylvania – 217 East Butler Avenue, Ambler; 2134 Street Road, Bensalem; 1500 Edgmont Avenue, Chester; 925 East Lancaster Avenue, Downingtown; 2826 DeKalb Pike, King of Prussia; 11 Bellevue Avenue, Penndel; 6301 Chew Avenue, 901 Girard Avenue, 3000 Grays Ferry Avenue, and 7627 Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia; 371 West Broad Street, Quakertown; two in Allentown; Ambridge; Bethlehem; Bridgeville; Butler, Castle Shannon; Easton, Fountain Hill; McKees Rocks; New Castle; Penn Hills; two in Reading; and Whitehall.
Additionally, in Ohio, three former Bottom Dollar stores in Youngtown and one in Warren will not reopen as Aldi units.