Aldi reveals 5 new retailer openings within the subsequent few days – is one coming to a city close to YOU?

Aldi has announced it will open five new stores across the UK in the space of 24 hours.

The new stores will open just in time for Christmas as the German-owned supermarket works towards having 1,500 sites nationwide.

Currently, Aldi has more than 1,050 stores in the UK and said it is making a £650million investment this year as part of its expansion plans.

In the coming days, new stores will open in London, Uxbridge, Northallerton and Pershore on December 11 while a fifth shop will open in Bristol on December 12.

This will see Aldi end the year with 1,081 stores, with plans to open 80 over the following two years.

Jon Neale, managing director of national real estate Aldi UK, said: ‘Opening any new store is exciting, but opening five in 24 hours, just before Christmas, will make a huge difference for customers in each of these areas. 

‘It reflects the demand we’re seeing right across the UK and the scale of our ambition as we continue to grow.

‘We’re committed to growing in the right places, with the right teams, bringing our low prices and high-quality products to even more communities – and we’re committed to moving as fast as we can to deliver that.’

Five Aldi new stores will open just in time for Christmas as the German-owned supermarket works towards having 1,500 sites nationwide. 

It comes after Aldi’s UK CEO Giles Hurley said that the supermarket has sold more seasonal products at this point in the year than it had last year. 

Despite the tough economic backdrop, Mr Hurley said Aldi was anticipating its ‘biggest ever Christmas‘, which partly reflects new store openings and inflation. 

It expected to sell about 49 million mince pies, 46 million ‘pigs in blankets’ and enough prosecco to fill 17 million glasses. 

‘Discretionary spending is being affected in terms of non-food and I think the hospitality sector is having a challenging time as well as customers are looking to celebrate at home,’ he said.

Earlier this week, Mr Hurley called Rachel Reeves to rethink her decision to raise money from inheritance tax on farmers.

Farmers will begin paying inheritance tax on their agricultural land and businesses at an effective rate of 20 per cent from April, on property worth more than £1 million.

The Telegraph reported that Mr Hurley was disappointed not to have seen ‘at least a review’ of the changes at last month’s Budget.

Mr Hurley said: ‘We know that a thriving British food system is really important for resilience and – over the passage of time – for price.’

He also gave a ‘cast iron guarantee’ that Aldi’s prices would be ‘the lowest of the market no matter what’.

‘The reality is the market is inflating,’ he said.