Lidl said it plans to invest more than $500 million to open 50 new stores in nine states by the end of 2021.
The stores, which will bring Lidl’s U.S. footprint up more than 150 locations, will be located in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Some of the 50 stores include units Lidl acquired in two recent acquisition deals. In January 2019, it purchased 27 Best Markets locations, including 26 stores in New York (24 in Long Island, one in Astoria, Queens and one in Manhattan) and one in Holmdel, NJ (since closed). Then, in December 2019, Lidl acquired six Shoppers Food & Pharmacy stores in Maryland and Virginia from UNFI. Additionally, two of the planned new store openings are company-owned sites that were going to be part of the initial 100 stores Lidl originally planned to open in 2017 or 2018.
The Arlington, VA-based U.S. division of the large German chain also said it will close two stores in Havelock and Shelby, NC which originally opened in 2017.
In researching the new store list, we found about 25 percent of the stores (not including the Best Market and Shoppers acquisitions) are in towns/cities where Lidl originally planned to debut in 2017 and 2018, but did not open at the original site it planned.
Here is the list of new stores:
- 37th St., Astoria, NY*
- Larkfield Rd., East Northport, NY*
- Dogwood Ave., Franklin Square, NY*
- Middle Country Rd., Lake Grove, NY*
- Merrick Rd., Massapequa, NY*
- Sunrise Hwy., Oakdale, NY*
- Harbor View Marketplace, Bayonne, NJ
- Hooper Ave., Brick, NJ
- Fire Rd., Egg Harbor Township, NJ
- South Ave., Garwood, NJ
- Delsea Drive, Glassboro, NJ
- Blackwood, Gloucester Township, NJ
- Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ
- Kinderkamack Rd., Park Ridge, NJ
- Park Ave., Weehawken, NJ
- Georges Ave., Woodbridge, NJ
- Baltimore Ave., Clifton Heights, PA
- Columbia Ave., Lancaster, PA
- Roosevelt Blvd., Philadelphia, PA
- York Rd., Warminster, PA#
- Pulaski Hwy., Bear, DE
- Solomons Island Rd., Annapolis, MD+
- Ritchie Hwy., Brooklyn Park, MD+
- Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia, MD
- Ritchie Hwy., Glen Burnie, MD
- Patrick St., Frederick, MD
- Montgomery Village Ave., Montgomery Village, MD
- Livingston Rd., Oxon Hill, MD+
- New Hampshire Ave., Takoma Park, MD+
- Padonia Rd., Timonium, MD
- Randolph Rd., Wheaton, MD+
- Little River Turnpike., Alexandria, VA
- Olde Keene Mill Road., Burke, VA+
- Chantilly Crossing Ln., Chantilly, VA
- Twentyninth Place Ct., Charlottesville, VA
- Gallows Rd., Falls Church, VA
- Liberia Ave., Manassas, VA
- Leesburg Pike, Sterling, VA
- Apex Peakway, Apex, NC
- S Church St., Burlington, NC
- S Tryon St., Charlotte, NC
- West Mallard Creek Church Rd., Charlotte, NC#
- Oleander Dr., Wilmington, NC
- Dorchester Rd., North Charleston, SC
- Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Duluth, GA
- Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, GA
- Johnson Ferry Rd., East Cobb, GA
- Whitlock Ave SW., Marietta, GA
- Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, GA
- Bells Ferry Rd., Woodstock, GA
*acquired from Best Markets in January 2019
+former Shoppers Food & Pharmacy stores acquired from UNFI in December 2019
#Lidl-owned stores that were listed on company’s original 2017 store plan