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Vegan liquid egg and Frickles: Aldi Plant Menu for Veganuary 2025
Aldi is ramping up its plant-based offering for Veganuary, unveiling its biggest-ever Plant Menu range launch with over a dozen new options
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Tiba Tempeh launches bigger block SKU and lands in Aldi
The new line is designed to provide greater value to heavy users of tempeh and larger families, the brand said
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Analysis & Features
2024 in grocery: Eight tech stories that got tongues wagging
2024 was a huge year for technology in the grocery sector, with supermarkets countering fraud, wrangling with data and testing cutting-edge kit
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Aldi to limit supply of own-label crémant for duration of New Year’s Eve offer
The discounter said it expected to see ‘unprecedented demand’ for the tipple
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Aldi launches its biggest-ever plant-based range for Veganuary
The discounter is adding a raft of new additions to its Plant Menu range from 30 December
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10 Aldi customers to win £100 vouchers for their Christmas food shop this weekend
The competition is a ramp-up of a ‘Big Advent Giveaway’ announced by Aldi in November
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Media Bites 20 December: Christmas dinner prices, Aldi’s sprout dispute and strong supermarket sales
The price of Christmas dinner is back in the headlines, while The Grocer’s exclusive on the GCA’s intervention in a legal dispute between Aldi and a supplier has also rippled into the national press
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Comment & Opinion
Was Aldi playing fair with shock sprout supplier delisting?
Brussels sprouts have been making the news this week. But did Aldi’s surprise delisting of its sprout supplier earlier this year lead to the business’ demise?
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Analysis & Features
Supermarket Christmas and New Year’s Eve opening times
A round-up of all the Christmas and new year opening hours for all the major supermarkets, including Tesco, Aldi and Sainsbury’s
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Aldi facing ‘unprecedented’ High Court action from GCA over supplier delisting
One of Aldi’s longest-serving suppliers claims its supply agreement was terminated after its crop for the retailer had already been sown, leading to the collapse of the business
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Thatchers vs Aldi trademark battle reaches Court of Appeal
Thatchers is appealing a High Court ruling in January that Aldi’s Taurus Cloudy Lemon Cider had not infringed its trademark
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Aldi to invest £650m in expansion in 2025, adding 30 new stores
‘We recognise there are still areas without an Aldi store, so our expansion plans for 2025 are designed to address some of these gaps,’ said Aldi UK chief Giles Hurley
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Aldi launches ‘Christmas pudding exchange service’ for Gen Z
The discounter polled 2,000 adults who celebrate Christmas and found those aged under 29 were turning their back on traditional festive food, with the classic dried fruit sponge cake among the most disliked
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Tesco enters Christmas dinner wars with £11.05 meal for six
The eight-product festive meal is ‘even cheaper than last year’, Tesco said
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Aldi kicks off Christmas dinner wars with offer to feed six for less than £12
Aldi is offering a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for six people for £11.45, or £1.91 per head
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Comment & Opinion
Veg wars: is Aldi’s 15p Christmas vegetable deal bad news for farmers?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The Christmas parties are underway, children are writing last-minute letters to Santa – and, most importantly, you can buy a kilo of carrots for only 15p
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Aldi slashes price of festive vegetables to 15p
The discounter’s Christmas veg promotion sees six lines slashed to 15p each from 19 to 24 December
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Mince pies up 40% year-on-year amid tight sultana and butter supplies
Twenty-six mince lines are pricier this year than last
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Lidl ‘accelerates’ store opening plans with six stores in one day
It marks a new period of “accelerated“ expansion for the discounter, following a slowdown of its rollout over recent years
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Analysis & Features
The battle for the best Christmas ad 2024: which ones impress our expert panel?
From a star-laden ‘crime scene’ to Kevin Carrot making boob jokes, this year’s ads are a varied bunch