All Discounters articles
-
Comment & OpinionWith Argos deal done, Sainsbury’s faces big decisions
Freed of the Argos millstone, will Sainsbury’s turn to Asda, Morrisons or the wholesale sector?
-
NewsAldi and Lidl should face same rules as rivals, CMA decides
The provisional decision has been delivered alongside a new call for views
-
NewsAldi offers grants up to £3,000 to sports clubs in England and Wales
The discounter is extending a scheme that has already awarded more than £500,000 to over 650 grassroots sports clubs in Scotland over 10 years
-
NewsLidl extends work with Olio food sharing app to 200 stores
Lidl said its work so far with Olio had saved around 1,200kg of food from going to waste a week
-
NewsAldi and Lidl nearly equal in race for UK space, data shows
The figures represent Lidl’s preference for slightly larger stores, as well as it creeping up on Aldi in store numbers
-
NewsSupermarkets ‘overlooking’ essential small charities, report finds
Lidl and Neighbourly surveyed around 900 charities and found 95% thought smaller, less visible causes were being overlooked
-
Comment & OpinionLidl’s scan & shop system works perfectly… I can’t believe it!
This is a discounter, with tighter margins to protect than Tesco, Sainsbury’s or Waitrose – and that’s what makes the experience so incongruous
-
NewsCDS Superstores secures £190m credit facility to fuel expansion
CDS Superstores, which also owners Homebase and Bathstore, said it would use the financing to continue its rollout of new format ‘The Range Superstores’, as well as enhancing AI search online
-
NewsAldi wins four-year battle with Lidl over Horncastle store
Both had submitted bids to open stores in Horncastle, but planners decided two discount supermarkets would be too harmful to the town centre
-
NewsIceland boss urges CMA to get on with decision over Aldi and Lidl
The CMA was due to publish a decision on whether Aldi and Lidl should have to follow land competition rules in July
-
NewsAldi makes new round of price cuts worth £100m
The latest round takes Aldi’s total investment in cutting prices so far this year to £300m across more than 1,000 products, according to the discounter
-
NewsLidl pays £25,000 claim after refusing shopper 5p Christmas veg
The shopper was accused of attempting to buy more than the permitted quota of packs of 5p shallots at Lidl’s Whalley Banks store in Blackburn in December last year
-
NewsAldi reveals list of ‘priority locations’ for new stores
The list runs to 160 locations across the UK
-
NewsBrits have ‘already eaten too much fat and sugar for 2026’, claims Lidl
Saturday 25 July is ‘overshoot day’, when Britain will no longer have a chance of achieving annual progress towards targets designed to provide sustainable food systems for growing populations, according to the supermarket
-
NewsB&M fined £2m and two stores closed over mice infestations
The offences occurred at St Andrew’s Retail Park, Priory Square Shopping Centre and The Fort Shopping Park stores in Birmingham
-
NewsAldi average prices fall as rivals’ increase, data shows
Unit prices at Aldi have dropped steadily since quarter four of 2025, while those of each of the other five – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Lidl and Morrisons – have dipped and then risen again in 2026
-
NewsSupermarkets reap rewards of World Cup spending bonanza
Supermarkets have reaped the rewards of a World Cup spending spree, as till sales jumped 4.4% last month
-
NewsPoundstretcher losses widen to £50m as like-for-like sales fall
Turnover rose by 16.9% to £247.4m thanks to the extended 15-month reporting period, but on a 12-month like-for-like basis sales fell by 7%, according to the accounts
-
NewsMorrisons launches ‘summer savings’ promotions campaign
The ‘money-saving offers’ include multibuys, online promotions and in-store price cuts, which will run throughout the summer
-
NewsB&M shares under pressure amid turnaround uncertainty
B&M shareholders have endured another week of fresh volatility as first-quarter trading disappointed the City and the discounter’s turnaround plan appeared to stall