Aldi Grocery Opens in Arnold This Week

Aldi grocery will hold a store preview and ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday at its new Arnold location at 2154 Michigan Ave.

A ribbon cutting will occur at 11 a.m. and customers are welcome to tour the new store and sample products from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The store will officially open for business on Wednesday at 9 a.m. to offer Arnold and South St. Louis County shoppers another choice for groceries.

The Arnold location will be the fourth Aldi store in the South County area and will join the locations in Fenton, Mehlville and Crestwood, stated the grocer’s website.

The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission first heard about the new development on May 10 when a St. Louis based real estate contractor said the grocer and Kohl’s Department Stores entered new a business agreement and wanted Arnold to have the first Aldi-Kohl’s partnership location.

“Kohl’s approached Aldi at the corporate headquarters level about a pilot program because the companies share complimentary customers,” John Sawyer, of St. Louis-based Sawyer Engineering, said to planning and zoning commissioners.

Documents submitted to Arnold City Hall, at 2101 Jeffco Blvd., stated Aldi would use about 2 acres of land on Kohl’s 8-acre lot at 2150 Michigan Ave.

The Arnold City Council unanimously approved the Aldi development during May 19 City Council Meeting at City Hall.