Aldi new stores.

Aldi are to open 50 new stores including sites in Wigan and North Wigan.

Beltin.... The more the merrier.... Asda.. Morris ons.. Tesco can all take their hook for me.

I'm surprised they haven't opened an Aldi in Wigan already.

are they still going ahead with the proposed 1 at the old gorners garage ? .

Well there is another kid on the block who are opening Merd Supermarkets

LINK

http://mereretail.co.uk/

Apparently they are from Russia, where there are a lot of Merd Supermarkets

So I wonder when we will get a Merd Supermarket in Wigan, which will no doubt be selling crap

Gorner’s site isn’t on the list Whups.

Ashton in Makerfield is, though, Gaffer.

Tarleton, five minute bus ride for me. Brilliant.

was,nt there a debate on wether or not gorners was big enough to have parking facilities ? .

I think the problem with the Gorners site would be access with it being on the corner of a busy junction

I think that the old Gorners site is too near to the existing Ashton store, for it to make any business sense to open an Aldi there, if the Ashton store was over shopped (too busy for its size) then they might look for larger premises, Lidl have done that in Golborne, they built a bigger store just up the road from the existing Lidl, which is now something else, but the Ashton store is definitely not over shopped, so maybe it is North Ashton which they are thinking about, the Downhall Green, Garswood, Bryn catchment areas, because all they have in those areas are the expensive convenience stores

Lidl are supposed to be building a new store off Princess Road, almost directly across from the existing Aldi. Nothing seems to be hatching though.

Truth be known, Ashton is in a good position for supermarkets. There's loads already, all within a couple of miles, or a five minute drive, of Ashton. There's bus services to all, for those who don't drive.

The traffic is bad though.

and that,s if you have a car ? .

The traffic is only bad at 'going home time' and, like I said, there's bus services from Ashton centre to all supermarkets.
Supermarkets within 10 minutes of Ashton =

Asda ...... x 2
Tesco ....... x 2
Sainsbury's ...... x 1
Aldi ....... x 3
Lidl ....... x 2
Iceland ........ x 4

I heard last year that they were going to build a Lidl or Aldi? on the land behind the petrol station on Woodhouse lane ?

So did I admin,then heard that they've held back building it until July...so we'll see.

I am sure that they have been dooing some work on that site.

I partially agree with our readers who have commented on this topic ,the only reservation i have of which i will probably be slated is that these two store's ALDI & LIDL are owned by the two german brother's and here again all the profit's are flowing out of the UK, as with a lot of other businesse's the EU keep on banging Britain but they don't complain about their companies opening up over here and taking all profit's out .......Like i say it is good news for our own people getting jobs so good luck to them ! GB

GB . Lidl is a separate company from Aldi and has no connection with the Albrecht family who own Aldi.

"all the profit's are flowing out of the UK"

Not at all. A very small percentage will.

From memory they do seem to pay their staff above market rate.

I know a couple of people whom have recently moved to Austria to take up positions with Aldi. A lad from Wigan and a lady from Liverpool.
Apparently the company is called Hofer In Austria.

GAFFER; I Thought they were two brother 's that's why i wrote that ! GB

GB
There were two Albrecht brothers, one is deceased. Each brother had a regional responsibity for a geographical area known as Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord, South and North. Lidl is a separate company with no connections to the Albrecht family.

Lidl currently want customer assistants for their new store opening in Wigan - careers.lidl.co.uk (Apply by 12th Aug)

Store: Wigan Beech Hill
Woodhouse Lane
WN6 7NS

They pay above the normal supermarket rates because you are classed as self employed and have to arrange your own tax and NI contributions

Gaffer, Janet (Jo) was asking about you not knowing i couldn,t tell her, she is no longer on WW,

'Orrible places.

Go to Tesco in Wigan on a Saturday morning and enjoy the experience.

Go to Aldi or Lidl, and come out suicidal.

They suck.

Bentlegs.

Thanks. Is she on the same email address, if so I'll send her an email.

I think there is a problem with the site across the road from a from Aldi in Princess road it was the old gas works and has been stood empty for years, I think there would have been something on there by now if it was safe. If Lidl do build on there i can see both Managers haveing a scrap in,t middle of Princess Rd

A few years ago the land on Princess road opposite Aldi was stripped and de- contaminated.

Wot sort of gas did they make

At the time household gas

Household gas ?

is this near Farmfoods

Dont stay to long on aldi car parks time allowed 1 hour 30 minutes over that time £70 pound fine.

link

I hope that is the start of a new retail park there, and then we can build the new Rugby Stadium up there too

That's been on the cards for many years. In fact, they must be so confident of getting it passed that they've already started groundwork!

I presume this is where there is that rather grand entrance facade to an empty field and a pile of dirt, which was when someone started to build on that site, and the council jumped in and stopped it, and that must have been 20yrs ago.

as if traffics not bad enough around there.