As the city reviews permits for conversion of the closed Winn-Dixie in Brierwood Village Plaza into an Aldi discount grocery ...

Efforts to solicit comment from Aldi were unavailing. Great Neck has been without a large retail grocery store since Best Market, which previously occupied the shopping center space, closed in 2021.

which had opened in a former Waldbaum's grocery store space five years earlier. Aldi is tentatively scheduled to open in Great Neck in summer 2026, according to the Germany-based grocer.

Aldi acquired the rival brands in a deal that was finalized about 12 months ago. More recently, 170 grocery stores in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida, and the existing Winn ...