The global food store chain Lidl has set Oct. 22 for the opening of its new store in the Central Plaza Shopping Center at 2570 Central Park Ave. in Yonkers. It plans to have a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 7:40 .m., after which the doors will be open for customers. The chain says the Yonkers store will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day.
Lidl, is part of Schwarz Group, a leading global food retailer headquartered in Germany. According to Lidl, its first location opened in 1973 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. It was a small store with only three employees and stocked around 500 products. Lidl currently operates more than 12,000 stores in 31 countries and employs about 375,000 people. Lidl U.S. opened its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, in 2015 and its first stores in the U.S. in 2017. It currently has more than 180 stores across nine East Coast states.
Lidl reported global sales of approximately $132.1 billion Euros for its Fiscal Year 2024, which is the equivalent of approximately $155 billion U.S. dollars.
The shopping center’s owner Central Plaza Associates LLC had filed with Yonkers to get the required approvals and permits for the adaptive reuse of space at the shopping center that would combine smaller stores to create the footprint for the 29,208-square-foot supermarket.
In addition to a new building facade and new signage for the supermarket, there are improvements to the refuse areas, crosswalks and the addition of new corrals for shopping carts. Lidl says that the interior layout offers fast and convenient shopping without what it calls “endless mazes.”
Among the food specialties Lidl says it will be featuring in the Yonkers store are: 49-cent butter croissants that are flown in from Europe and baked fresh daily in the store; private label Lidl Preferred Selection pizzas that are imported from Europe; Preferred Selection Frozen Tiramisu; and Italian pasta with premium fillings like truffle and lobster.
