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BAY SHORE, N.Y. - Every time Edith Lang travels from Long Island to Schenectady, N.Y., to visit relatives, she stops at the local Aldi store.
On the top of her shopping list is Aldi's Moser-Roth brand of gourmet chocolate.
Lang's quest for Moser-Roth is a lot easier now that an Aldi store opened here just several towns away from her Long Island, N.Y., home.
"I like Aldi because you can get quality food at a reasonable price," Lang told SN as she waited in line to enter Aldi's new Bay Shore store at last week's grand opening.
The Bay Shore unit is the small-format, discount retailer's first Long Island location and second New York City-area store.
The opening comes at a time when the retailer - which operates more than 1,100 U.S. stores in 31 states - is aggressively expanding its footprint. For the last several years, Aldi has averaged 80 new store openings annually. Its first New York City location opened in February in Rego Park, Queens, while another is slated to open in the Bronx later this year. As...