Harrisdale and Piara Waters residents will be some of the first in Perth’s southeastern suburbs to walk through the doors of an Aldi when the Harrsidale store opens next Thursday.
The store will open along with the rest of Stockland Harrsidale Shopping Centre on June 23 while nearby stores Camillo in Westfield Shopping Town will open on June 29 and the Southern River store on Warton Road will open on July 6.
The Armadale store in Armadale Shopping City is expected to open in August although no date has been set.
Alcohol will not be sold at the Harrisdale store after the director of liquor licensing denied Aldi’s application for a liquor outlet in May.
Aldi applied to sell 60 wines, four ciders, 16 beers and 15 spirits within the main store but the director rejected it after concerns about the public health implications of selling cheap alcohol.
The director also raised concerns over selling alcohol so close to regular groceries saying it would ‘normalise’ alcohol as a standard grocery product.
On the same day the Aldi application was rejected a standalone BWS outlet at the other end of the centre was approved.
Aldi has appealed the decision.
