Lidl opening nine new supermarket stores this month - see full list of locations

The latest store openings travel the supermarket's ambitious determination successful December, erstwhile it opened 10 caller stores, including Bovey Tracey, Hemel Hempstead, and Ipswich, successful the run-up to Christmas

Lidl volition beryllium opening 9 marque UK supermarket stores this month.

In February, the supermarket chain volition unfastened 4 marque caller locations successful Canning Town, Preston, Walsall, and Wombourne. At the aforesaid time, Lidl volition unfastened 5 upgraded stores successful Blantyre, Cwmbran, Oldbrook, Wells, and West Ealing. The upgraded stores person bigger income areas and modern amenities, which supply much abstraction for shoppers and a overmuch wider enactment of products.

The latest store openings travel the supermarket's ambitious determination successful December, erstwhile it opened 10 caller stores, including Bovey Tracey, Hemel Hempstead, and Ipswich, successful the run-up to Christmas. The caller stores are portion of Lidl's program to person 1,100 UK stores by the extremity of 2025. Currently, the supermarket concatenation has implicit 970 stores successful the UK.

Richard Taylor, Chief Development Officer astatine Lidl GB, said: “As we statesman the caller year, we’re maintaining our momentum and opening 9 state-of-the-art stores, delivering bigger and amended buying experiences to caller communities and those we’ve proudly served for an mean of 26 years.

"After a record-breaking Christmas, wherever millions of households turned to Lidl, these openings bespeak the increasing request for our unbeatable worth and quality. This is conscionable the commencement – we’ve got much openings successful the pipeline this twelvemonth unsocial and can’t hold to invited adjacent much customers, some loyal and new, done our doors successful the weeks ahead.”

During the Christmas 2024 period, Lidl saw astir 2 cardinal much customers compared to the twelvemonth before, with income for the festive play rising 7% year-on-year - exceeding £1billion for the archetypal time.

Lidl precocious came 2nd successful Which?'s monthly supermarket terms examination study. In January, Aldi took the apical spot with the terms of a handbasket store of 100 items sitting astatine £185.83. Lidl took 2nd spot with a handbasket terms of £186.59 with its Lidl Plus loyalty strategy and £186.62 without.

New Lidl supermarket stores successful February

New store openings

• Canning Town
• Preston
• Walsall
• Wombourne

New upgraded stores

• Blantyre
• Cwmbran
• Oldbrook
• Wells
• West Ealing