Aldi to build 130 new stores in £600m expansion

Aldi has announced plans to open more than 130 new stores and hire 8,000 more staff as part of a £600m UK expansion.

The discount supermarket chain has overtaken Waitrose to become the sixth-biggest supermarket in the UK with 5.3% market share.

The new stores will see the chain’s workforce first to a total of 35,000, the firm is looking to build small-scale stores with a build value of £1m-£3m each rather than the superstores of Sainsbury’s and Tesco.