Archive of all Aldi articles
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Comment & Opinion
Lidl has come out punching in 2025. What is making it so confident?
Lidl has come out swinging in 2025, with a price comparison campaign targeting an array of rivals
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Comment & Opinion
It’s all over for Just Walk Out technology. So what’s the point of Amazon Fresh?
The fact is: Just Walk Out technology is just not all that frictionless
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Grocer 33
Aldi takes third ‘Super 33’ price comparison win in a row
Aldi’s £54.82 total was 39p cheaper year on year, and offered the lowest price for 23 items
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News
Aldi to recruit 500 apprentices in 2025
Successful applicants will gain industry-recognised qualifications while they earn, according to Aldi
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News
UK’s top three supermarkets shunning X as retreat grows
So far in 2025, Sainsbury’s and Asda have joined Tesco in not posting on X except in reply to customers
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News
Supermarkets and drinks companies submit bid to run deposit return scheme
Retailers have also urged ministers to take a step back because of the risk of the costs of DRS pushing up prices as the UK faces renewed pressure on food inflation
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News
Aldi planning to create more than 1,600 store jobs in 2025
The discounter – which now has more than 1,050 stores, up by about 10 since December – said the jobs would result from a previously announced plan to invest £650m in further expansion in 2025
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News
Promotions boost supermarket sales in January
Supermarkets kept shoppers spending after Christmas by offering a raft of promotions as take-home sales rose by 4.3% in January
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarket imitations of brands are rife. Here’s why
Grocery retailers are always looking for new products and very rarely will come up with a brand new idea, says Ged Futter, director of The Retail Mind
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News
Asda vows to be ‘cheapest’ as it brings back Rollback prices
The retailer is set to launch a new heavyweight advertising campaign fronted by Joe Wicks
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Comment & Opinion
Ex-Lidl CEO: Thatchers vs Aldi ruling is a wake-up call for brands
Aldi and its peers will continue to push the boundaries, and fmcg brands need to be ready, says Ronny Gottschlich, former CEO of Lidl UK and founder of Heunadel Retail Advisory
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News
Media Bites 29 January: Rachel Reeves speech, Diageo, WH Smith and Starbucks
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will give a speech later this morning
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Comment & Opinion
How did Aldi end up charging shoppers £10 to enter a store?
The ‘pre-authorisation’ fee at Aldi’s Shop & Go store in Greenwich has turned ‘just walk out’ into ‘just walk out at least £10 worse off’
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News
Aldi taking £10 ‘pre-payment’ from shoppers to enter its checkout-free store
Shoppers who don’t leave with £10 worth of shopping could have to wait several days or longer for a refund
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News
Asda ends its Aldi and Lidl price match scheme
Asda has ended its Aldi and Lidl price match scheme, as it plans to launch a major new Rollback campaign of price cuts
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News
Aldi first retailer to embed new MSC Improvement Program into fish sourcing policy
The new programme aims to offer fisheries support and incentives to become more sustainable, provided they make measurable improvements over a five-year period
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News
Aldi adds 0% ready-to-drink cans as low & no sales soar
The pair have joined a growing low & no lineup at the discounter
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News
Tesco, Lidl, Co-op and Aldi call for ‘pause’ on ‘Family Farm Tax’
Tesco CCO Ashwin Prasad said the retailer wanted a halt in the rollout of inheritance tax reforms and was calling for a long-term government vision for farming
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News
Media Bites 21 January: cider copyright ruling, Morrisons vs protesters, ‘forever chemicals’
Aldi has been defeated by Thatchers in a legal battle over a copycat cloudy lemon cider
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News
Aldi beats rivals to offer the UK’s highest hourly pay rate for supermarket workers
From 1 March, the hourly rate for Aldi store workers will rise from £13.65 to £14 within the M25 and from £12.40 to £12.71 elsewhere in the UK