Aldi and Lidl have spent years insisting they stock fewer than 3,000 lines each. The CMA has now shown otherwise. Buried in the regulator’s 80-page ruling that the two should face the same planning rules as their supermarket rivals is a more striking revelation: the discounters have been understating the size of their ranges by 40%, having counted multiple product variants as a single line. We’ve dug into the juiciest revelations in the CMA’s decision.