Aldi has announced that it will invest over £370 million to open new stores across Britain this year.

The discounter said the investment will include the development of new stores in Southam in Warwickshire, Hastings in East Sussex, and Amersham in Buckinghamshire.

Aldi, which is the UK’s fourth largest supermarket with over 1,070 stores, said it will open around 40 new stores this year.

The move is part of Aldi's £1.6 billion two-year investment programme announced in September last year, as it works towards its long-term ambition of operating 1,500 UK stores.

In 2025, Aldi ramped up its store opening programme, with the company opening five new stores in December over the course of 24 hours.

Giles Hurley, chief executive officer at Aldi UK and Ireland, said that the supermarket aims to make affordable groceries accessible to everyone and that the investment seeks to address this aim.

"We’ve always believed that access to high-quality affordable food is a right, not a privilege, and that’s why it’s our mission to make this a reality for customers up and down the UK,” continued Hurley.

Earlier this month, Aldi released research which claims families in over 200 UK towns are paying up to £2,437 more per year on their grocery shopping simply because they lack access to an Aldi supermarket.

Industry data from Kantar shows that approximately 70 per cent of UK households now shop at Aldi, with the retailer’s sales rising by 4.8 per cent this year and market share reaching 10.8 per cent.

Last year, Aldi overtook Asda to become the UK’s third largest grocer by value of food and drink sales.

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