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Special Report: LIDL - Staten Island, NY (Port Richmond)

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LIDL
Opened: September 30, 2026
Owner: Schwarz Group
Previous Tenants: various non-grocery tenants
Cooperative: none
Location: 1545 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY
Photographed: October 9, 2026
Welcome to Staten Island, where we're checking out another new NYC LIDL! This store is just shy of 20,000 square feet, making it in line with LIDL's current new stores but smaller than the stores LIDL was opening in its earlier days. For comparison, Staten Island's other LIDL (which I haven't posted) opened in 2018 at a much larger size of 36,000 square feet.
You can also see that the decor is seriously scaled down here, so much as to be almost invisible (whose idea was it to put dark green lettering on a dark blue wall?). Part of that is the low ceiling, but it also feels like LIDL is trying to push its stores lower-end -- and therefore closer to ALDI than the original idea, which was kind of a hybrid between a full service supermarket and a discount store.
Produce and bakery are up in the front-right corner, with deli and meat in the rest of the first aisle. Dairy lines the back wall, with frozen in the last aisle on the left side.
Staten Island also has two ALDIs, but importantly, neither one is on the north shore (which tends to be the lower-income side of the island). This store is, however, just a block over from a Stop & Shop, down the street from a ShopRite, and not far away from a Western Beef that's in the process of transitioning to Food Bazaar.
The nonfoods section also is much smaller in the newer LIDLs, and they seem to have dropped the "Midl of Lidl" branding. Here's a look at that setup in a LIDL that opened in 2024 up in Westchester County.
As you can see when you compare this store to the Pelham one I linked there, the newer stores are much simpler in design and feel quite different from the slightly earlier generation of store. The difference is even more profound when you compare this type of store to the kind LIDL was building when they first came into the US.
That's all for this LIDL, and we'll see how the chain continues to evolve its strategy as it continues to expand (since there doesn't seem to be any slowing down in the near future). Here's a look at the rest of this weekend's posts!
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