{"id":87391,"date":"2026-09-08T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/87391\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:12:09","slug":"new-aldi-coming-to-merriam-near-trader-joes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/87391\/","title":{"rendered":"New Aldi coming to Merriam near Trader Joe\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new discount grocery store is coming to Johnson County, less than a mile away from the area\u2019s new Trader Joe\u2019s.<\/p>\n

An Aldi at 5830 Antioch Rd.,<\/a> is currently under construction, according to signage posted in the parking lot. It was previously an Office Max, which closed earlier this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Signage Signage posted in front of the construction at 5830 Antioch Rd., where a new Aldi is expected to open. Noelle Alviz-Gransee <\/p>\n

An opening date for the discount store has yet to be announced, but signage in the lot as of Sept. 4 says \u201ccoming soon.\u201d The new Aldi will be in the Merriam Town Center \/ Merriam Village, which includes an Ikea, Marshall\u2019s, Cinemark, Home Depot, Five Below and more.<\/p>\n

This will mark the 31st Aldi location in the Kansas City area. The Albrecht family founded the discount grocery store in Germany in 1961, and it has since grown to more than 2,400 stores across the United States, according to its website.<\/a><\/p>\n

City officials in Grain Valley recently announced the construction of an Aldi<\/a> just off Interstate 70 just outside the downtown area, at 3300 S. Outer Road E.<\/a> It is expected to open January 2027.<\/p>\n

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Noelle Alviz-Gransee<\/a><\/p>\n

The Kansas City Star<\/p>\n

Noelle Alviz-Gransee is a food, arts and business reporter for the Kansas City Star. She studied journalism and political science at MU and has previously written for the Des Moines Register, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, The Missourian, Startland News and the Missouri Business Alert.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new discount grocery store is coming to Johnson County, less than a mile away from the area\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21128],"tags":[21143,21144],"class_list":["post-87391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-aldi","tag-aldi","tag-sud-nord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}