Aldi news and analysis – Page 4
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NewsSupermarkets 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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NewsAldi 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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NewsPromotions 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 & OpinionSupermarket 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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NewsAsda 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 & OpinionEx-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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NewsMedia 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 & OpinionHow 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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NewsAldi 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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NewsAsda 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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NewsAldi 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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NewsAldi 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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NewsTesco, 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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NewsMedia 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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NewsAldi 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
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NewsAldi infringed Thatchers’ trademark, finds Court of Appeal
Lord Justice Arnold said Aldi had ‘intended to take advantage of the reputation of the trademark in order to assist it to sell the Aldi product’
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NewsAldi rolls out Kri Kri High Super Spoon Protein Ice Cream tubs
Chocolate Hype and Peanut Butter Load provide 24g of protein per 450ml tub
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NewsAldi launches wine with sales ‘supporting the removal of plastic from oceans’
For every bottle sold, the equivalent of 10 plastic bottles worth of ocean plastic will be removed from the environment, according to the discounter
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NewsAldi to open nine new stores in London in 2025
The discounter is investing £55m in expansion in the capital
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NewsAldi buying MD Julie Ashfield promoted to chief commercial officer in board structure shake-up
The shake-up also includes the creation of two chief operating officer roles, who along with Ashfield will report to Aldi UK CEO Giles Hurley