A new option for grocery shopping is on the horizon in Fernandina Beach, where Aldi plans an April 2 opening of its converted Winn-Dixie store at 947 Amelia Plaza.
The Germany-based grocer has set a ribbon-cutting for 8:45 a.m., offering gift bags with Aldi products and a gift card to the first 200 customers.
JR Perry, regional vice president for Aldi, said in a March 30 news release that the new store would “bring more people a high-quality grocery they want and need at the lowest possible price.”
In March 2024, Aldi completed a deal with Southeastern Grocers Inc., now The Winn-Dixie Company LLC, to buy about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores to convert into its discount concept.
Eleven months later,, a consortium of private investors led by Southeastern Grocers Inc. CEO Anthony Hucker and supplier C&S Wholesale Grocers acquired SEG and 170 remaining Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores in the five states to continue the banners.
Winn-Dixie has begun converting Harveys stores to the Winn-Dixie brand in a strategy to focus on the company’s home state of Florida and the Northeast Florida region after selling its stores in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and much of Georgia.
Aldi announced Jan. 12, 2026, it would continue its Southeast expansion in 2026 by converting close to 80 SEG locations.
Aldi had 13 area stores before the first SEG conversion. It now has at least 24 stores open in Northeast Florida, listing on info.aldi.us/stores that it has 15 in Duval County; four in St. Johns; three in Clay; and two in Nassau. The site shows the Amelia Plaza store as being open.
In the March 30 release, Aldi said the opening of that location brings the grocery close to achieving its goal of having 3,200 stores open by the end of 2028.
The closest Nassau County Aldi is in Yulee at 463689 Florida 200, about 7.5 miles west. Elsewhere in Fernandina Beach, the Publix in the Island Walk Shopping Center at 1421 Sadler Road near South 14th Street closed in April and will be demolished and rebuilt.