Could a ‘Land Blocking’ Rule Change Spell Danger for Aldi and Lidl?
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Could a ‘land blocking’ rule change spell danger for Aldi and Lidl?
German discounters Aldi and Lidl have rapidly taken control of the UK’s budget grocery market in recent years. But could new curbs on ‘land blocking’ slow their insurgency? Only a few decades ago, Lidl and Aldi were oddities. By 2008, the German discount supermarkets had been in the UK for more than 10 years but had failed to make much of an impression. Their sparse stores, wooden pallet shelving and unbranded, rarely fresh produce puzzled Briti…
CMA Moves to Bring Aldi and Lidl Under Major Supermarket Land Rules
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally ruled that Aldi and Lidl should now be classified as Large Grocery Retailers, a decision that would bring both discounters under the same land-use restrictions already governing Britain's biggest supermarket chains.The finding would extend the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010 to Aldi and Lidl for the first time. The order was designed to stop major grocers f…
Why has Aldi never opened in Northern Ireland? New supermarket ruling raises fresh questions
Aldi has hundreds of supermarkets across Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, yet Northern Ireland remains a conspicuous gap in its network — and a new competition ruling involving both Aldi and Lidl has put the reasons for that absence back under the spotlight. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally decided that Aldi, Lidl Great Britain and Lidl Northern Ireland should be brought under rules designed to prevent majo…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed to equate Aldi and Lidl with the large supermarket chains in terms of land use, a measure that could erode the price advantage that these two German chains have built in recent decades. The decision, still provisional, opens a scenario that analysts look forward to because of its possible repercussions on the strategy of the discounters in Spain, where both companies accelerate their ex…
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