BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Break out your trusted quarter and reusable tote bags — a new Aldi grocery store is opening in South Broken Arrow Thursday morning.
Residents in the area of 121st and Elm are so excited about this grocery store opening that they started lining up as early as five Thursday morning... hours before the official opening of the store.
When you drive down Elm in South Broken Arrow you won’t see many grocery stores.
“Most of the stuff in Broken Arrow you’ve got to go like 10 miles in the opposite direction and I know that doesn’t sound like that much but through traffic it could take like 20 minutes to get to the other side of BA. So I think this is huge,” Jennifer Lynn said.
Lynn is a personal chef and she lives just a mile away from this new Aldi grocery store. With inflation and gas prices still high, she says it's going to help her business.
“What this is going to do is make it more convenient and my time is more valuable than any amount of money that I can make," she said. "So if I don’t have to drive as far or if I can be in the middle of a recipe and be like hubs I forgot this and he can be back in 5 minutes.”
South BA resident Mike Peyton echos Lynn’s excitement for this grocery store.
"I'm excited because it's gonna be a lot closer from any other stores that we've gone to," said Peyton. "As far as other Aldis or any options, all we have is Walmart out here. This will give us another option which is great."
The grand opening of the store took place just before nine Thursday. At that time more than 100 people were lined up.
As much as Lynn wanted to be one of the first in the store… she had to leave for work.
“I can’t wait to come back at like 11:30 when I get off work,” Lynn said.
This is the second Aldi store to open in BA to service the community, putting the chain on track to become the third-largest U.S. grocery retailer by the end of 2022.
“We have served this community for 20 years and are excited to continue to offer Broken Arrow residents an affordable way of shopping," said Skyler Jones, Olathe regional vice president for ALDI.
The new Aldi is located at 525 West Tucson Street in Broken Arrow. The store will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
However, this isn’t the only new grocery store coming to this area. Reasor’s will be opening a new location off of Aspen and the Creek Turnpike not far from this store.
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