Aldi has earmarked a record £900m investment for store openings and new distribution centres in the coming year as part of a drive to reach communities cut off from affordable groceries.
It is part of a raft of measures the discounter claimed would help tackle food affordability in Britain as inflation continues to rise. Aldi is set to continue to cut prices across its range in the build-up to Christmas, on top of the £340mm invested in reducing prices on more than 1,000 products so far this year.
The supermarket, which currently has 1,092 stores, said the £900m investment in 2027 would include 40 new shops, plus continued works on its distribution network. Aldi is set to open 30 stores over the next 10 weeks, including in Dumbarton, Newport and Willesden in London.
Aldi is aiming to reach 1,500 stores across the UK in the longer term, with a focus on communities with little other local choice or competition.
Aldi also revealed this morning a 5% jump in annual turnover to £19bn for the 12 months to 31 December. The chain did not report its like-for-like figures for the year, but growth has slowed over the course of this year, with sales up just 0.7% in the 12 weeks to 6 September, according to the latest data from Worldpanel.
Aldi said its record sales in 2025 was driven by “more customers buying more products in more stores”, thanks to a “relentless focus on simple, everyday low prices”.
Operating profits were flat for the year at £432.9m as it continued to invest in prices, infrastructure and staff pay.
“The cost of food remains one of the biggest pressures on households across the country,” UK CEO Giles Hurley said. “Recent droughts at home and events overseas have highlighted just how fragile our food system is and why food security must be a long-term national priority.
“We’re working hard to make good food more affordable for every family – cutting prices on everyday essentials, signing long-term supplier agreements to help increase home-grown production, and continuing to bring affordable groceries to even more communities through our store opening programme.
“This is why more customers are buying more products at Aldi – our relentless focus on simple, everyday low prices and award-winning quality.”
Aldi added it spent £14bn with British suppliers in 2025 as part of a drive to champion home-grown food, with about 80% of its sales generated from domestic partners and 100% of its fresh beef, pork and poultry sourced from British farms.
Aldi has committed to sourcing at least 50% of products through long-term agreements with its suppliers by 2027. The chain said multi-year contracts gave producers and manufacturers greater confidence to invest in boosting production capacity, making Britain’s food system less reliant on overseas imports.
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