Aldi arrives in Asturias: this is the opening date of its first supermarket in the region

ALDI takes another step in its expansion plan planned for 2022 and On November 16, it will open the doors of its first supermarket in the Principality of Asturias. The new establishment, located in the Carbonera Highway, 325, corner with Alicia Concepción Álvarez Street in the city of Gijónwill have a sales room of about 1,000 m2 and a team of 11 collaborators. With this inauguration, ALDI It will now be present in all the autonomous communities of the country.

The new supermarket will offer the residents of Gijón and surrounding areas a new purchase option where to find quality products at the lowest possible price. The new store It will have an assortment of nearly 2,000 products, of which a 86% are own brand and 80% of national originalso from Asturias, so that its customers can make a complete, comfortable and simple weekly purchase.

Hiring growth in Madrid and the central and northern areas

ALDI arrived in Spain in 2002 and currently has more than 380 supermarkets throughout the country. To support its sustained growth in Spain, the company has announced that plans to hire more than 1,000 employees during the last quarter of this year. Specific, Madrid and the central and northern areawhere the incorporations planned in Asturias are framed, will concentrate 29% of new hires. These regions are positioned as the second in the highest volume of new employees, only behind Catalonia.

Throughout the country, and following its commitment to generating stable employment and job opportunities in the locations where ALDI has a presence, the supermarket chain will increase its workforce in Spain by 16% from September to December. In this way, the company plans close the year with a staff of more than 7,500 employees.

ALDI boosts its expansion in Spain: thirteen more stores in November

The inauguration of the first ALDI in Asturias is part of the solid expansion plan that ALDI is carrying out in the country this 2022 and with which it plans to add more than 40 new stores before the end of the year. In this sense, on November 16, the company will also inaugurate a new supermarket in Dénia (Alicante) and will inaugurate a new supermarket in the city of Madrid, in the district of Carabanchel. ALDI also plans to open new stores on November 23 in Zaragoza, Alcorcón and Tenerifeand the November 30four more distributed by Torremolinos (Málaga), Huelva, Barcelona and Madrid capital.

In addition to these openings, the supermarket chain will change the location of three more supermarkets in Barcelona, Valencia and Alicante. Total, the company will surpass the milestone of 390 supermarkets in the country, with the commitment to continue growing in the future and generating stable employment.