They probably got tired of email from those states asking "When are you going to open here?", especially in Texas where, if all goes well, they might have a Grand Opening by 2019.
The new site is business-to-business. No link to a mailing list of future openings. There's a grand openings link on the lidl.com homepage but no mailing list there, either.
Most intriguing are the Special Stores which can vanish into a historical façade, shades of the Olivetti shop, now a museum, in Venice, Italy.
https://www.realestate-lidl.com/
