Oh how exciting, Aldi want me – ME! – to be involved in their 'virtual consultation' about a new store. Which is basically marketing gumpf, I guess, to pre-empt objections to the planning application.
This one follows the one from Lidl, who have a similar proposal to build their supermarket at the other end of same road.
I confess I never really understand the economics of supermarkets, we already have a Morrisons and a Waitrose, neither of which seems especially busy, and only slightly further afield, a big Sainsbury and a big Tesco. Even though people are getting fatter, I can't imagine that they're eating so much food there's a need for two entirely new supermarkets within brief walking distance of one another. Or one for that matter. All supermarkets sell the same crap for a similar price, tbh, and you don't need to the king or queen of Cluedo to know they killed your local high street, I suspect we're subsidizing most of their workers with tax credits and other kickbacks (which probably explains why there are so many of them and they can (figuratively, one hopes) cannibalise the same finite market of shoppers).
Even though they're not really near me, I'll grink on principle, if nothing else, it will encourage yet more cars on roads that are already choked and hammer another couple of nails into the high streets immortal resting arrangements.
