This week Aldi may have lost its crown as Britain’s cheapest supermarket, having held the title for a whole 20 months, but the German budget retailer is still going from strength to strength. Aldi has just announced that it will open one new supermarket a week until the end of the year, massively ramping up its expansion in the UK.
Aldi’s latest plans have been a long time coming. At the start of 2025 the affordable supermarket brand revealed it wanted to open 30 new shops in the UK this calendar year, then it confirmed 10 openings this summer alone.
It should be noted that the one-new-supermarket-a-week number is an average, rather than a weekly opening. Aldi currently has 1,050 UK shops and is aiming for 1,090 by the end of 2025. Eventually the company wants to operate 1,500 supermarkets across Britain.
Commenting on the new stores, Aldi’s managing director for national real estate Jonathan Neale said: ‘At Aldi our goal is to make sure people across the UK have access to affordable, high-quality food, and opening new stores is key to making that happen.’
‘We’re now opening an average of one new store a week for the rest of 2025, showing just how ambitious our plans are to build a store network that will help us reach millions of new customers.’
Aldi new UK supermarket locations
Aldi has confirmed the following new supermarket locations, all set for the coming months.
- Airfields, Welsh Road, Deeside
- Rockingham Road, Market Harborough, Lancashire
- Fulham Broadway, London
- Pacific Drive, Eastbourne, East Sussex
- Mafon Road, Nelson, Treharris
- Waterbrook, Ashford, Kent
- Commercial Street, Shoreditch, London
- Philadelphia Lane, Houghton le Spring, Tyne and Wear
- Mill Road, Meadowfield, Durham
- Pendle Drive, Litherland, Liverpool
- Ringwood Road, Brimington, Chesterfield
Full list of UK high street closures confirmed in 2025: Poundland, Morrisons, WH Smith, Homebase, New Look and more.
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