Aldi makes major change at 260 stores and says it will 'enhance shopping experience'

Aldi trialled the lockers astatine 22 stores crossed the state successful December 2023, but has present bumped up this fig to 260 stores nationwide - present is what you request to know

Aldi is rolling retired much InPost lockers crossed hundreds of its stores.

InPost lockers tin beryllium utilized for some sending and receiving packages and are commonly utilized for radical who marque purchases connected eBay, Vinted, and Amazon. Aldi trialled the lockers astatine 22 stores crossed the state successful December 2023, but has present bumped up this fig to 260 stores nationwide.

The terms for utilizing an InPost locker typically starts astatine £2.85, excluding VAT, with the lockers unfastened 24/7 truthful you tin cod your parcel astatine a clip that suits you. Customers tin cheque the lockers astatine their section store are disposable to usage earlier visiting at: https://inpost.co.uk/lockers.

Richard Thornton, Communications Director astatine Aldi UK, said: “Our customers worth convenience, which is wherefore we’re expanding the availability of InPost lockers crossed much Aldi stores. By adding lockers astatine much locations nationwide, customers tin present cod oregon instrumentality parcels seamlessly portion picking up their buying astatine Aldi.”

Neil Kuschel, CEO astatine InPost UK, said: “Our concern with Aldi to grow the fig of lockers nationwide reflects our shared committedness to providing quick, casual and accessible parcel postulation and returns for shoppers crossed the UK.

“By installing further InPost Lockers extracurricular Aldi stores, we’re offering customers the state to prime up and driblet disconnected parcels astatine their convenience, without the request to trust connected store opening hours oregon hold successful queues. We’re excited to spot however this collaboration volition heighten the buying experience, trim the outgo and proceed to conscionable the increasing user request for secure, sustainable, and seamless parcel solutions.”

It comes aft Aldi confirmed it volition springiness thousands of workers a wage emergence successful March. The minimum hourly complaint astatine the supermarket volition emergence to £12.71, up from £12.40 an hr currently, portion employees moving successful London volition spot their hourly wage emergence to astatine slightest £14, up from £13.65. Store adjunct wage volition emergence further to £13.62 nationally, and £14.23 wrong the M25, based connected the magnitude of service. Aldi employs astir 45,000 radical successful the UK crossed 1,020 stores.

The wage emergence means Aldi volition support its presumption arsenic Britain’s champion paying supermarket. Sainsbury’s is conscionable behind, aft the supermarket said it volition rise the minimum crossed the UK to £12.60 successful August, followed by Lidl, wherever store workers get astatine slightest £12.40.

Meanwhile, Aldi precocious mislaid a trademark conflict against Thatchers implicit its cloudy citrus cider, aft the Somerset-based brewer sued the supermarket for infringement. The High Court successful London dismissed Thatchers’ lawsuit past January, with a justice saying determination was a debased grade of similarity betwixt the products and nary likelihood of disorder for consumers.