Could a ‘land blocking’ rule change spell danger for Aldi and Lidl?

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Asda and Morrisons lost market share in recent years (Andrew Matthews/PA Wire) German discounters Aldi and Lidl have rapidly taken control of the UK’s budget grocery market in recent years. But could ...

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By 2008, the German discount supermarkets had been in the UK for more than 10 years but had failed to make much of an impression. Their sparse stores, wooden pallet shelving and unbranded, rarely fresh produce puzzled British shoppers. Fast forward to 2026, and the two grocers are firm favourites in the UK. They each operate at more than 1,000 stores across the nation and have forced Britain’s native supermarkets, once known as the ‘big four,’ against the wall. \n\nIn May, Lidl forced Morrisons out of the top five by market share and Aldi is threatening to leapfrog Asda into third place. The green-liveried discount grocer has been haemorrhaging market share in recent years and slumped to a near-£1bn loss in June. Aldi, meanwhile, recently opened its 1,080th store in the UK and was just 0.6 per cent behind Asda last month, according to Worldpanel by Numerator. The German discounters overcame the initial scepticism of British shoppers in the early 2010s, winning over the so-called ‘Maidstone mums’ to become the go-to for middle-class households looking for bargain champagne or freshly-baked goods – not just those feeling the pinch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNews Updates\nStay ahead with our three daily briefings delivering all the key market moves, top business and political stories, and incisive analysis straight to your inbox.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThough Sainsbury’s and Tesco – the two crown jewels of the UK’s grocery sector – appear safe from the insurgent discounters, their aggressive advertising campaigns in recent years make it clear that the two German supermarkets are on their minds. Both FTSE 100 grocers are piling new products onto their Aldi price match ranges, showing that the pair are wary not to rest on their laurels. \n\nBut the ‘big four’ have been handed what they hope will be a life raft in their bid to stem the tide of competition from Aldi and Lidl. Last week, the competition watchdog said it has provisionally decided to close a land-use loophole which had afforded the German discounters a huge advantage. Currently, the two supermarkets are not covered by a set of rules, known as the Controlled Land Order, which was introduced in 2010 to stop grocers from buying up land to prevent rivals from opening new sites near their existing stores. Rule change to ‘level playing field’This crackdown on so-called ‘land banking’ applies to Asda, Co-op, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose – but not Aldi and Lidl, because they are classed as ‘limited assortment discounters’, not ‘large grocery retailers’. \n\nRivals of the German discounters had long campaigned for this loophole to be closed, and the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) said last week that it is on course to expand these rules to the two grocers. Because they now offer a wide range of products and purchase groceries directly from suppliers, these companies now operate more like ‘large grocery retailers’ than discounters, the watchdog has found.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":false,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"-1","news_tag":"policyRegulatory","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"isLaohu8Offline":false,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.47.1","shortVersion":"4.47.1","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2659588031","isCrawlerRequest":true}