German grocery chain Lidl has halted plans to open its first Alabama store.
Lidl US announced last September it was opening its first Alabama location in Decatur. This week, however, city officials said the chain had pulled out of a deal to purchase 4.4 acres of property currently owned by Calvary Assembly of God at Beltline Road and Glenn Street in the southwest part of the city. The decision was first reported by the Decatur Daily.
The Calvary property is back on the market for $2.85 million.
Lidl (the word rhymes with "needle") made its first foray into the American market last year when it opened nine stores along the East Coast and announced an aggressive expansion plan of 100 locations by mid-2018. It quickly opened 20 stores in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia but plans for the additional 80 slowed. Fifty percent of the stores that were slated to open have not yet done so,Business Insider reported.
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