Aldi hunts for 55 new store locations in North West
The supermarket chain is looking for 1.5-acre freehold sites that can host a 20,000 sq ft store and at least 100 parking spaces.
Ideal spots will also be situated along a prominent main road and have good visibility and access. Desired locations include Liverpool, Caernarfon and West Didsbury.
Aldi has more than 900 stores in the United Kingdom and is the fifth largest supermarket company in the country. It is showing no signs of curbing its growth, opening an average of one store a week.
Here are the locations on the Aldi wish list:
Cheshire
- Alsager, Stoke on Trent
- Birchwood
- Cheshire Oaks
- Crewe
- Culcheth
- Grappenhall
- Lymm
- Macclesfield
- North Chester
- Runcorn
- Stockton Heath
- Tarvin
- Warrington
- Widnes
- Wilmslow/Handforth
Cumbria
- Keswick
- Staveley
- Windermere
Greater Manchester
- Altrincham
- Bradshaw/Bromley Cross
- Burnage
- Cheadle Heath
- Cheadle Hulme
- Didsbury
- East Oldham
- East Sale
- Hazel Grove
- Heald Green
- Lowton
- North Manchester
- North Wigan
- Orrell
- Radcliffe
- Shevington Vale
- Stockport
- West Didsbury
- Wigan
Lancashire
- Colne/Nelson
- Darwen
- Lancaster
- Ormskirk
- Penwortham
Merseyside
- Formby
- Haydock
- Kirkby
- Liverpool – Central
- Liverpool – South
- North Southport
- North St Helens
North Wales
- Colwyn Bay
- Caernarfon
- Dolgellau
- Flint
- Holywell
- Pwllheli
Can the local authorities please stipulate that Aldi only gets planning permission on the proviso it ‘greens’ the store footprint to the same standard of its new sites throughout countries like Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands etc. Every Aldi site I pass has the same tree-less, bland, uninspiring frontage imaginable. I don’t only blame Aldi, why on earth don’t our councils not demand an aspect of landscaping as part of new-build for the benefit of the community and the enhancement of the area, instead of giving wealthy brands like Aldi carte blanche to put up lifeless, dull buildings. This country is years behind the continent in this respect… you see much higher quality design and environmental consideration over there!
By Dezine
Aldi is a very good cheap as chips supermarket. We need more of these stores.
By Darren.