Its prices may be small, but Aldi’s ambitions are mighty. The budget supermarket brand, currently the cheapest of all the UK supermarkets, is spending big to boost its presence across the country and bring affordable groceries to as many Brits as it can.
At the start of 2025 the company revealed that it would be spending £650m on opening 30 new shops in the UK, then in the summer announced that it would be launching a new store ‘every week’ until the end of the year (on average, not literally). Now, it has announced that a further 16 stores will open before December 12, with new Aldis set for Kentish Town and Old Kent Road in London, Northallerton in Yorkshire, Kirkintilloch in Scotland and more.
Aldi won’t be slowing down after that though. In fact, it’ll be ramping things up even more. The brand has pledged to spend a whopping £1.6 billion on opening 80 more new stores across the UK in 2026 and 2027 to ‘to meet the UK’s growing demand for affordable groceries’. The areas on its radar for those include Exmouth, Amersham, Hastings and Newport in Wales.
Jonathan Neale, the managing director of national real estate at Aldi UK, said: ‘At Aldi, we’re focused on making affordable, high-quality food accessible to as many people as possible - and opening new stores is at the heart of how we do that.
‘Launching 16 new stores in just over five weeks is a significant milestone for our business and a clear demonstration of the pace and ambition behind our growth plans. It means more communities will benefit from Aldi’s value and choice in the weeks ahead and beyond.’
Full list of new Aldi stores in the UK before Christmas 2025
Aldi has confirmed that the following stores will open between November 6 and December 12 2025.
- Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear
- Pendle Drive, Litherland/Sefton, Liverpool
- Gallamore Lane, Market Rasen
- McGavigans Road, Kirkintilloch, Scotland
- Queens Park Avenue, Billericay
- Kentish Town, London
- Dundee Road, Arbroath
- The Green, Cheadle
- Boghall Road, Baillieston
- Old Shoreham Road, Hove
- Pershore Market, King George’s Way, Pershore
- Riverside Retail Park, Yate, Gloucestershire
- Northallerton, North Yorkshire
- Harefield Road, Uxbridge
- Daventry, Northamptonshire
- Old Kent Road, London
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