Discount grocers Aldi and Lidl are capitalizing on demand for budget-friendly groceries and growing their brands as the two German-owned grocers prepare for fiercer competition in the years ahead, Erich Kahner, director of competitive strategy and insights...
While many retailers are raising prices on grocery items, German discount retailer Lidl is reducing the cost on over 100 items in all of its US-based stores for the summer months.
European discount supermarket Lidl has announced a new deal with Fairtrade America to offer US customers a unique private label chocolate bar that contributes to a living income for cocoa farmers.
Discount retailer Lidl will build a $100m regional distribution center (RDC) in Covington, Georgia to support its US expansion, creating 270 new full-time jobs over the next five years.
Lidl, a predominantly private label retailer, will open 25 new stores in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia by next spring. By the end of 2020, Lidl said it expects to operate more than 100 stores.
Lidl US is expanding its regional presence and entering a new market in Long Island via a deal to acquire 27 Best Market stores in New York and New Jersey, which it plans to rebrand as Lidl stores next year.
Lidl has faced a challenging start in the US, but with renewed focus on product refinement, commitment to home-delivery and creative store expansions there is 'every possibility' of success, says PlanetRetail RNG's research director.
Lidl’s US expansion – its first outside of Europe – has not gone as smoothly as the retailer would have liked, with expansion plans now being scaled back. A new report from Planet Retail RNG explores what this means for product suppliers, and how the...
Lidl’s entrance last summer into the highly competitive US retail market already is placing significant pricing pressure on nearby major retailers, which likely will need to drop prices even further and offer more convenient shopping services in order...
Lidl is successfully undercutting competitors in premium and organic and would benefit hugely from a restructure towards this strength, says The Hartman Group.
Kroger has lost its bid to gain a preliminary injunction that would immediately bar Lidl from using its 'Preferred Selection' name on its premium private label products.
“Lidl will be a very real threat for small scale grocers that lack differentiation or operational efficiencies," predict analysts at Bernstein. However, its success in the US “is by no means a foregone conclusion,” they caution.
Is Lidl’s ‘Preferred Selection’ private label “confusingly similar” to Kroger’s ‘Private Selection’? Or is Kroger’s recent trademark infringement lawsuit against Lidl merely an opportunistic bid to derail a rival’s US market entry?
A comparison between Lidl stores in Europe and the first wave of US stores suggests the retailer is moving “away from the hard discount model as we know it in Europe,” according to an analysis by Bernstein.
Given that Lidl is only opening its first US stores this week, it’s impossible to predict with certainty what its future looks like, but it could be a significant force in US food retailing in just five years, predict analysts at Kantar Retail.
The first Lidl US stores will open on June 15 in the Carolinas and Virginia, the company announced at an exclusive press event in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Lidl's scouts are eyeing locations along the East Coast for its first US stores, but other than that, the retailer's US expansion plans have been mostly under wraps.
The American consumer is changing, but are traditional bricks & mortar grocery retailers adapting to this new reality? It’s on a learning curve, but by exploring a variety of online models and new store formats Kroger is trying to “address where the...
