Madeira Beachs longtime Winn-Dixie will reopen as an Aldi this week

Madeira Seaside’s longtime grocery store is reopening this week in a brand original format.

Aldi will debut this Thursday, September 24th, at 15200 Municipal Drive in Carter Plaza, in some unspecified time in the future of from Archibald Seaside Park and R.O.C. Park.

The shop replaces the feeble Winn-Dixie, which closed final year after more than 50 years in enterprise. The Municipal Drive store became as soon as built in 1975 and had operated as a Winn-Dixie ever since.

Winn-Dixie Liquors will dwell open.

To tag the broad opening, the first 200 possibilities in line Thursday will receive a accumulate of branded objects and a “golden tag,” an Aldi gift card rate as a lot as $100. Workers will additionally distribute free Aldi shopping totes in some unspecified time in the future of the day.

The shop will seemingly be open on daily foundation from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Aldi acknowledged the Madeira Seaside jam will supply novel and natural produce delivered on daily foundation, alongside with cheese, wine, gluten-free merchandise, and plant-primarily primarily based alternate suggestions.

Identified for its streamlined store model, Aldi carries a curated mixture of merchandise that is heavily weighted in direction of its hang novel brands. The firm says these brands account for about 90% of its stock and that households who swap to Aldi-novel merchandise can place nearly $4,000 yearly.

The shopping abilities additionally differs from a used supermarket. Customers accumulate their very hang groceries, elevate reusable bags or buy bags in-store, and insert a quarter deposit to release a shopping cart. The quarter is returned when the cart is introduced wait on.

Aldi will own roughly 22,000 square ft, or about half of of the feeble 44,000-square-foot Winn-Dixie. The final 22,000 square ft has been reserved for a future tenant. Colliers, the brokerage advertising and marketing the final jam, acknowledged it’s a long way in discussions with loads of prospective tenants but has no longer but signed a rent.

The 64,000-square-foot Carter Plaza shopping mall is additionally dwelling to Bronze Girl Dwelling Furnishings, Colette’s Fashions, Smoke Bros, and a CVS Pharmacy outparcel building. Buck Tree closed earlier this year.

The Madeira Seaside opening is half of Aldi’s broader conversion of feeble Winn-Dixie locations following its March 2024 acquisition of Southeastern Grocers.

Aldi acknowledged it has converted and opened nearly 90 feeble Southeastern Grocers stores in some unspecified time in the future of Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi, with plans to remodel more than 200 locations by the tip of 2027.

With the Madeira Seaside opening, Aldi now has 17 stores in Pinellas County, at the side of 5 in St. Petersburg and two in Pinellas Park.

Facet negate: One day of our study for this article, we came in some unspecified time in the future of a January 13, 1975, St. Petersburg Instances advert pronouncing the broad opening of Madeira Seaside’s Winn-Dixie. The shop occupied the property for more than 50 years sooner than closing final year.