- Jan 29
- 2 min read
Aldi, the UK’s fourth-largest supermarket, is to invest £370 million this year to open new stores across Britain.
This includes the development of new stores in Southam in Warwickshire, Hastings in East Sussex, and Amersham in Buckinghamshire, with the supermarket targeting 40 new store openings this year.
This forms part of Aldi’s £1.6 billion two-year investment programme announced last year, as the retailer works towards its long-term ambition of operating 1,500 UK stores.
The investment follows an equally busy store opening programme in 2025, which saw Aldi open new stores including Kirkintilloch in East Dunbartonshire to Eastbourne, East Sussex, and in locations such as Fulham Broadway in London and Deeside in Wales.
Giles Hurley, Chief Executive Officer at Aldi UK and Ireland, said:
“Our unwavering commitment is to make high-quality, affordable groceries accessible to everybody. But we recognise that there are still areas without an Aldi store, so our expansion plans for 2026 are designed to address some of these gaps as we work towards our long-term goal of 1,500 UK stores."
"We’ve always believed that access to high-quality affordable food is a right, not a privilege, and that’s why it’s our mission to make this a reality for customers up and down the UK.”
The supermarket recently released new figures showing that families in over 200 UK towns are paying up to £2,437 more per year on their grocery shopping simply because they lack access to an Aldi supermarket.*
Aldi has been named the UK’s cheapest supermarket by consumer group Which? for the fifth year running. Last week, Aldi also won The Grocer’s ‘Super Grocer 33’ – a survey comparing the price of a 33-item basket of groceries at all major UK supermarkets – for the seventh consecutive time, highlighting its position as the best value for British shoppers.
Earlier this month, the supermarket announced it was increasing its already-market-leading pay rates for store colleagues, with Store Assistant rates rising to £13.35 an hour nationally (and up to £14.30 with service) and £14.71 within the M25 (rising to £15.03 with service), effective from 1st March 2026.
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