In a city that seems to grow gourmet grocers like dandelions, Ann Arbor is getting ready to welcome a more price-conscious grocery market, ALDI.
The low-cost grocer is opening a new 10,000-square-foot store at 2340 Ann Arbor-Dexter Road, near Plum Market at the intersection of Maple and Ann Arbor-Dexter roads. This will be first ALDI in the Ann Arbor area.
"It's a market we want to tap into," says Heather Parczan, a spokeswoman for ALDI.
This is one of 80 new grocery store ALDI expects to open this year. It opened 100 last year and has more than 1,000 stores across the nation, primarily in Kansas and the East Coast. There are no plans to open another ALDI store in Ann Arbor anytime soon.
"This just happened to be the right site at the right time for us," Parczan says.
FUN FACT: ALDI was owned by owned and managed by German billionaire brothers Karl Albrecht and Theo Albrecht. Theo also bought and owns Trader Joe's.
Source: Heather Parczan, a spokeswoman for ALDI
Writer: Jon Zemke
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