Orlando’s grocery wars have seen their share of ebbs and flows in the past half-decade or so.
Expansion pushes from grocers new and familiar have ramped up, stalled, then built up and halted again.
The latest development in the landscape is the announcement that German discount grocer Aldi will buy 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket locations from Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers Inc. — a deal that, when it closes, will consolidate the footprint of the grocers with the third- and fourth-largest market shares in the Orlando region.
Jason Kaiser, a senior vice president and principal with SRS Real Estate Partners in Orlando who is not involved in the Aldi/Winn-Dixie deal, notes that construction is expected to begin soon on the region’s first location for Korean grocer H Mart. As a specialty grocer that tends to have a large trade area. However, it is unclear whether H Mart will pursue multiple locations in the market.
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