Aldi will open 35 new stores across the UK this year, boosting employment opportunities within local communities.
The new openings form part of the discounter’s long-term target of 1,500 stores in the UK, with the grocer set to invest £550m on expanding its UK footprint in 2024.
The new wave of openings come as the supermarket opened its 1000th store in Woking last year, and follows the opening of locations in Skelmersdale and Newport earlier this year.
Each new store is understood to create around 40 new jobs on average where, from June this year, store assistants will receive the UK’s highest starting pay for supermarket workers at £12.40 per hour, with those within the M25 receiving £13.65 per hour.
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Aldi UK managing director of national real estate Jonathan Neale said: “After attracting more new customers than any other supermarket in the last 12 months, we’re more determined than ever to expand our presence across the country.
“We want to make high-quality food accessible to all, and shoppers know they’ll always get more for their money when shopping at Aldi.”
Last week the grocer said it was looking at expanding its stores to a number of priority locations across the capital, and to help identity sites, offered a finders fee to property agents of either 1.5% of a freehold price or 10% of the first year’s rent for leasehold sites.
List of store locations opening in the coming months:
- Portway, Preston
- Meteor Retail Park, Derby
- Castle Gresley, Derbyshire
- Swinfen Vale, Bardon
- High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Stoke Gifford, Bristol
