Aldi completes Winn-Dixie deal, announces timeline for conversions and 800-store expansion plans

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Metro Orlando’s 20 Winn-Dixie grocery stores are officially under new management, as popular discount grocer Aldi announced March 7 it had completed its acquisition of Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers and its 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores.

Those 20 Winn-Dixie stores add to Aldi’s existing 34 stores in the metro’s core counties — Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake — to give the German-based supermarket chain 54 locations here.

That number is almost certain to grow, too, as Aldi also announced its plans to invest $9 billion and open 800 new stores across the U.S. in the coming years.

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