Aldi Overtakes Waitrose To Become UK’s Sixth-Largest Supermarket Chain

Aldi has overtaken Waitrose to become the UK’s sixth-largest supermarket chain by market share, continuing the discounter’s rapid push into mainstream grocery retailing.

The German chain increased sales by 16.8% in the 12 weeks to 29 March, according to the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel. That took Aldi’s share of the market up to 5.3%, compared with 5.1% for Waitrose, which is owned by the John Lewis Partnership.

Waitrose’s sales rose 2.9%, a relatively strong performance in a market which expanded by just 1%. But that growth was not enough to prevent the upmarket grocer being overtaken by Aldi, whose pace of growth far outstripped a tough market in which grocery prices overall fell by 2%.

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