BILLA will open a 600 m² supermarket at Tannerstraße 2 in Köstendorf, Austria, on 26 November 2026. The REWE Group retailer confirmed the opening date on 11 November. The store shares a building with a pharmacy and 11 subsidised rental flats.

The Salzburg project gives shoppers in Köstendorf a supermarket and pharmacy at the same address. BILLA developed the site with Salzburg Wohnbau. The pharmacy opened on 2 November, according to the municipality.

Köstendorf is BILLA’s second recent project in Salzburg to combine food retail and subsidised housing. Its store in Bramberg am Wildkogel has around 826 m² of selling space and 28 flats above it. BILLA says the two developments have created 31 jobs between them. The Köstendorf opening will bring the retailer to 81 sites in the state.

For supermarkets in Austria, the two projects show how the same property model can accommodate different store sizes. The Köstendorf shop has roughly a quarter less selling space than Bramberg. For category teams, that makes pack sizes, shelf allocation and the balance between daily essentials and regional ranges worth testing store by store.

BILLA says it stocks more than 9,000 regional food products across its Austrian business. It has not disclosed the range or local suppliers for Köstendorf. Austrian fresh produce suppliers assessing a site of this size should confirm case sizes and replenishment frequency with the buyer, particularly for short-life lines. Delivery windows also matter at a site shared with homes and a pharmacy.

The first weeks of trading will show which lines need more shelf space and whether shoppers use the store chiefly for top-up trips or for a larger shop. For BILLA, that is the useful comparison with Bramberg as it assesses where the format could work next.

Editor’s note: Based on BILLA’s 11 November 2026 announcement, the municipality’s pharmacy notice and local coverage of the Köstendorf and Bramberg developments.