Aldi celebrates Rehoboth Beach opening with ribbon cutting
The new Aldi north of Rehoboth Beach celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting Nov. 11.
Located in the Route 1 shopping development with andThat!, PetSmart and Chick-fil-A, the new store is part of the retailer’s expansion plan to open approximately 100 new groceries across the country in 2021. It occupies the space that used to house Kmart, which closed its doors in early 2020.
This is the first Aldi in Sussex County, but not in Delaware. There are already locations in Camden, Dover, Smyrna, Middletown and Wilmington. The address for the new store is 19563 Coastal Highway, Unit 1, Rehoboth.
According to the company website, store hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week. Also per the website, Aldi reserves the first hour of business on Tuesdays and Thursdays for vulnerable shoppers.
For more information, go to aldi.us.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
