An interview with Aldi’s CEO wins the second annual Supermarket News Top News Tournament

Last year’s Aldi acquisition and the resulting plan to convert a “significant” number of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores is the winner of the second annual Supermarket News Top News Tournament, a bracket-style tournament in which our readers voted week-to-week on the news story you considered the biggest of 2023.

Aldi CEO Jason Hart spoke with Supermarket News at the end of August about the company’s power move in the Southeast territory, which positioned the brand to be a major player in the grocery market industry.

In the final call for votes on Instagram, followers cast dozens of votes, almost 63% of which catapulted the Aldi story to victory over a story about Amazon’s possible quest to acquire Kroger and Albertsons stores.

Supermarket News has been covering the Southeastern Grocers deal since news first broke last August. Check out these stories, and stay tuned for more to come:

The second annual news tournament received thousands of votes, and the winner of our Apple Watch giveaway was Janice Cooper of Birmingham, Mich.