Story
Shopify at Aldi: Storefront Operations
Aldi, a consumer staples organization in Germany, uses Shopify Markets from Shopify to support omnichannel retail for merchandising and digital.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Merchandising and digital work from the same Shopify Markets record for storefront operations |
| Capability | Storefront operations can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for storefront operations |
Story
Aldi grew storefront operations faster than the local tools around it. From Germany, consumer staples teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. Merchandising and digital were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out Shopify Markets put omnichannel retail on Shopify. Shopify is a commerce platform that lets brands run online stores, checkout, and omnichannel retail on a shared stack. Aldi keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so merchandising and digital do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier omnichannel retail. Storefront operations is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join merchandising and digital without a guided tour of someone's desktop.