The news follows an announcement that store workers are set for a pay rise to £13 an hour
Aldi is set to open a new supermarket every week for the remainder of the year as part of its aggressive expansion strategy.
And the news follows an announcement that store workers are set for a pay rise as the supermarket announced it was hiking its minimum wage to £13 an hour from September.
The discount supermarket has revealed the locations of its upcoming stores, which include Fulham Broadway and Shoreditch in London, Retail Gazetter reported.
Eastbourne in East Sussex, Waterbrook in Kent, Meadowfield in Durham, Deeside and Treharris in Wales, and Market Harborough in Leicestershire will all see new Aldi branches opening in the coming months. The retailer also plans to unveil new stores in Tyne and Wear, Liverpool and Chesterfield.
Full list of areas:
- Fulham Broadway
- Shoreditch
- Eastbourne in East Sussex
- Waterbrook in Kent
- Langlay Moor Meadowfield in Durham
- Deeside and Treharris in Wales
- Market Harborough in Leicestershire
- Tyne and Wear
- Liverpool
- Chesterfield
These openings are part of Aldi’s £650m investment into its store estate this year, which will also see 35 of its supermarkets refurbished by year-end.
List of stores getting a refresh in the coming months:
- Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
- Herne Bay, Kent
- Aigburth, Liverpool
- Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
- Southampton, Hampshire
- St Marys Gate, Sheffield
- Weymouth, Dorset
- Ancoats, Manchester
- Ayr, Scotland
- Northampton, East Midlands
- Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Lye, Dudley
- Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
- Inverness, Scotland
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Horwich, Greater Manchester
- Glastonbury, Somerset
- Darlington, County Durham
- Sandbach, Cheshire
- Bingley, West Yorkshire
- Cowdenbeath, Scotland
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Murdishaw, Cheshire
- Romiley, Greater Manchester
- Clevedon, North Somerset
- Hexham, Northumberland
- Louth, Lincolnshire
- Cupar, Scotland
- Burton On Trent, Staffordshire
- Chelmsford, Essex
Jonathan Neale, Aldi UK’s managing director of national real estate, 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. But it’s not just about openings – it’s also about making sure we have the best-paid teams in place to run them.”
Aldi store workers are set for a pay rise as the supermarket announced it was hiking its minimum wage to £13 an hour from September. The discount grocery chain claims to be the first UK supermarket to introduce the new minimum rate.
Store assistants will be paid a minimum of £13 an hour nationwide from September 1 – up from a current £12.75. This rises to £14.33 an hour for workers within the M25 – from the current £14.05.
Based on the length of service, Aldi store assistants could see their pay jump to £13.93 nationally, and to £14.64 within the M25. Giles Hurley, chief executive of Aldi UK and Ireland, said: “Our people are the driving force behind our success across the UK.
“This latest investment in pay is a reflection of their hard work and the incredible contribution they make every single day.
“We’re proud to remain the UK’s highest-paying supermarket and will continue to support our colleagues in every way we can.”
The UK national minimum wage was raised to £12.21 an hour in April for workers over the age of 21. Other supermarkets have raised their bottom rates for thousands of shop workers in recent months to bring it above the national minimum.
Tesco store workers are set to benefit from minimum hourly rates rising to £12.64 an hour from the end of August, having risen to £12.45 from March 30.
For Sainsbury’s and Argos workers, the national minimum hourly rate will rise to £12.60 in August, having increased to £12 in March.
Rival German discounter Lidl, earlier this year, increased hourly pay for thousands of workers to £12.75 an hour across the UK.