A SUPERMARKET giant has axed its click and collect service at nearly 200 stores starting today, leaving shoppers devastated.
Shoppers across the UK are reeling after Aldi announced it is discontinuing its popular click and collect service at 174 stores, effective today.
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A major supermarket has axed its click & collect service
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Starting today, shoppers will no longer be able to use click & collect at Aldi
The budget supermarket giant has decided to pull the plug on the service, which allowed customers to order groceries online and collect them at their convenience.
Launched at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in September 2020, Aldi’s click and collect service quickly became a lifeline for those keen to avoid the hustle and bustle of in-store shopping.
The £4.99 service offered the ultimate convenience, allowing customers to pick up essentials like canned goods and fresh produce without even leaving their car.
Staff members would bring the shopping directly to the vehicle, making it a stress-free experience.
But now, just four years after its launch, Aldi is saying goodbye to the handy feature, much to the disappointment of its loyal customers.
The service, which had expanded to over 200 stores by 2021, has been gradually phased out, with 12 stores losing the option as recently as July 2023.
An Aldi spokesperson confirmed the decision, explaining that the Click & Collect service was always intended to be a trial and has been under constant review.
The spokesperson said: “At Aldi, our focus is on providing customers with high-quality products at the lowest possible prices.
“One of the ways we keep our prices low for customers is by running the most efficient supermarket business in Britain.
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“As a result, we’ve made the decision to bring our Click & Collect service to an end so we can focus on doing just that.”
The move has left many customers gutted, especially those who relied on the service for its convenience and ease.
Social media has been buzzing with disappointed reactions, with some shoppers expressing frustration over the loss of a service that had become part of their routine.
If you’re wondering whether your local Aldi has been affected, check out the full list of locations where click and collect has been axed.
ALDI CLICK AND COLLECT LOCATIONS
Aldi has officially scrapped its click and collect service, affecting the following locations:
- Abbey Lane, Humphreys Way, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 0BR
- Airport Retail Park, Coventry, London Road, West Midlands, CV3 4RP
- Amesbury, Former Co-op, Redworth House, Wiltshire, SP4 7HD
- Ashbourne, Carnation Way, Derbyshire, DE6 1AY
- Ashby, Dents Rd, Leicestershire, LE65 1JS,
- Aylesford, Unit 3, Hermitage Lane, Kent, ME20 7PT
- Basingstoke Winklebury Way, Hampshire, RG23 8BB
- Bedford Westville Road, MK42 9BL
- Bedworth, Mill Street, Coventry, Warwickshire, CV12 8JX
- Belper, Chapel Street, Derbyshire, DE56 1AR
- Bideford, Atlantic Park Way, Devon, EX39 3FR
- Blackwood Gate Retail Park, Caerphilly, NP12 2FS
- Bletchley, Unit 1, 144 Watling Street, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK1 1EY
- Bodmin, Tollgate Road, Cornwall, PL31 2FJ
- Borehamwood Retail Park, Herefordshire, WD6 4PR
- Bretton, Flaxland, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 8DF,
- Bridgend Ind. Est, Bridgend, CF31 1BZ
- Bridgend, Brackla St/Cheapside
- Bridgnorth, Stourbridge Road, Shropshire, WV15 5DL
- Bristol Bedminster, North Street, Bedminster, BS3 1JA
- Bristol Longwell Green, Bath road, BS30 9DE
- Bromsgrove, Birmingham Road, Worcestershire, B61 0DR
- Buckingham, Osier Way, Buckinghamshire, MK18 1TG
- Burntwood, Bridge Cross Road, Chase Terrace, Staffordshire, WS7 2BX
- Caerphilly Road, Cardiff, Caerphilly, CF14 4QF
- Caerphilly, Unit 12-13 Gallagher Retail Park, Parc Pontypandy, CF83 3GX
- Camborne, Church Street, Cornwall, TR14 7DF
- Cardigan, Aberystwyth Road, Ceredigion, SA43 1NA
- Carmarthen, Stephens Way, Carmarthenshire , SA31 2BG
- Central Park, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV23 0UX
- Chatteris, 99 Bridge Street, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6AZ
- Chellaston, Riber Drive, Derby, Derbyshire, DE73 6WS
- Cheltenham, Tewkesbury Road, Gloucestershire, GL51 0SN
- Chertsey, Gogmore Lane, Surrey, KT16 9AP
- Chichester, Unit B, Barnfield Drive, West Sussex, PO19 7AG
- Clacton, Pier Avenue, Clacton on Sea, Essex, CO15 1NJ
- Clay Cross, 8 High Street, Derbyshire, S45 9DY
- Colchester, Cowdray Av, Essex, CO1 1YN
- Coleshill, Station Road, Warwickshire, B46 1HU
- Consett, Front Street, Durham, DH8 5RE
- Coped Hall Business Park, Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, SN4 8ES
- Corby, Saxon Way West, Northamptonshire, NN18 9EZ
- Coventry, Shultern Lane, Cannon Park, West Midlands, CV4 7AN
- Cowes, Three Gates Road, Isle of Wight, PO31 8PF
- Crayford, 1 Roman Way, Bexley, DA1 4FY
- Crosshands, Llandeilo Road, Carmarthenshire , SA14 6RD
- Croydon , Purley Way, London, CR0 4XJ
- Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff, CF5 6XW
- Cwmbran, Woodside Road, Torfaen, NP44 3EW
- Daybrook, Mansfield Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 6BJ
- Deal, Park Street, Kent, CT14 6FN
- Derby, Uttoxeter New Road, Derbyshire, DE22 3HN
- Dereham, Norwich Road, Norfolk, NR19 1FS
- Didcot, Broadway, Oxfordshire, OX11 8ES
- Droitwich, Kidderminster Road, Worcestershire, WR9 9AY
- Dunstable, Church Street, Central Bedfordshire, LU5 4RP
- Eastbourne Lottbridge Drove, 55 Lottbridge Drove, East Sussex, BN22 9AA
- Erdington, Birmingham, 1159 Chester Road, B24 0QY
- Evesham St Richards Rd, Worcestershire, WR11 1ZD
- Exeter Pinhoe, Exhibition Way, Devon, EX4 8JD
- Fairhill, Bedford, MK41 7FY
- Faringdon, Unit 2, Henry Blake Way, Oxfordshire, SN7 7GQ
- Garstang, Moss Lane, Wyre, Lancashire, PR3 1HB
- Gillingham Kingsmead Business Park, Dorset, SP8 5FB
- Glastonbury, Moorlands Enterprise Park, Somerset, BA6 9FW
- Gloucester, 7 Hucclecote Road, Gloucestershire, GL3 3TH
- Grantham, Trent Road, Lincolnshire, NG317UN
- Great Lodge Retail Park Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 3EW
- Halesowen, Earls Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B63 3HR
- Havant, Unit 6B Central Retail Park, Hampshire, PO9 1HH
- Haverfordwest, Salutation Square, Pembrokeshire, SA61 2LG
- Haverhill, Lordscroft Lane, Suffolk, CB9 0ER
- Heanor, High Street, Derbyshire, DE75 7EZ
- Henbury, Crow Lane, Bristol, BS10 7EN
- Hereford, 166 Eign Street, Herefordshire, HR4 0AP
- High Wycombe, Baker Street, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2RX
- Hobley Drive, Helibeds Site, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN3 4LP
- Holyhead, Penrhos Retail Park, Gwynedd, LL65 2UQ
- Homer Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 3QJ
- Honiton, Turks Head Corner, Exeter Road, Devon, EX14 1AZ
- Huntingdon, 4 Edison Bell Way, Cambridgeshire, PE29 3HG
- Hythe, 142 Dymchurch Road, Kent, CT21 6HJ
- Ilkeston, Manor Road, Derbyshire, DE7 8EG
- Ipswich, 2 Donald Mackintosh Way, Suffolk, IP8 3LQ
- Irthlingborough, Attley Way, Northamptonshire, NN9 5GF
- Kettering Business Park, Northamptonshire, NN15 6YA
- Kettering, Unit 6-7, Carina Road
- Kingstanding, College Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 0HL
- Leamington Spa, Shires Retail Park, Tachbrook Park Drive, Warwickshire, CV34 6RH
- Ledbury, Leadon Way, Herefordshire, HR8 2SS
- Leeming Lane South, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 9AQ
- Leighton Buzzard, Vimy Road, Central Bedfordshire, LU7 7ER
- Lichfield, Church Street, Staffordshire, WS13 6EB
- Lincoln, 260-266 Wragby Road, Lincolnshire, LN2 4PX
- Llansamlet, 96 Samlet Road, Swansea, SA7 9AF
- Loughborough, 51 Belton Road, Leicestershire, LE11 1JA
- Loughborough, Allendale Road, Leicestershire, LE11 2FF,
- Lye, Dudley Road, West Midlands, DY9 8EL
- Mansfield, Oak Leaf Close, Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, NG18 4TB
- Maskew Avenue, Unit 1 Maskew Retail Park, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 2BT
- Meir, Whittle Road, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 7TU
- Melksham, Beanacre Road, Wiltshire, SN12 8RP
- Melton Mowbray, LE13 0DA
- Merthyr Tydfil, Plymouth Street, CF47 0TP
- Milton Keynes Westcroft Retail Park, Buckinghamshire, MK4 4DD
- Montrose, Basin View, Angus, DD108DE
- Muller Road, Petherbridge Way, Horfield , Bristol, BS7 9NZ
- Newmarket Road, Cambridgeshire, CB5 8JG
- Newmarket, Exning Road, Suffolk, CB8 0EA
- Newport Risca, Newport , Cardiff, NP11 6NP
- Newport Spytty Road, NP9 0TX
- Newport, Audley Avenue, Shropshire, TF10 7DW
- Northampton, 2 Earl Street, Upper Mounts, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU
- Norton Retail Park, Leek New Rd, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, ST1 6AX
- Norwich Drayton Road, Norfolk, NR3 2DW
- Nottingham Road, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, NG9 8AD
- Nuneaton, Kingswood Road, Warwickshire, CV10 8QY
- Oxford, Botley Road, Oxfordshire, OX2 0HA
- Paignton, Brixham Road, Devon, TQ4 7BD
- Parc Tawe, Swansea, SA1 2AS
- Pembroke Dock, Eastern Avenue, Pembrokeshire, SA72 4AA
- Plymouth Southway, 2 Flamborough Road, Devon, PL6 6GB
- Port Talbot, 32-38 Commercial Road, Vale of Glamorgan, SA13 1LG
- Porth, Cymmer Road, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 9BQ
- Portishead, Former Co-op, Wyndham Way, Bristol, North Somerset, BS20 8LR
- Portsmouth Southampton Road, Hampshire, PO6 4RJ
- Preston, Unit 5, Queens Retail Park, Lancashire, PR1 4HZ
- Priory Road, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 4DS
- Queensville, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST17 4NJ
- Reading, Basingstoke Road, RG2 0NT
- Redditch, Trescott Road, Smallwood, Worcestershire, B98 7AH
- Redruth,Former Avers Garage, A3047/Close Hill, Cornwall, TR15 1FH
- Romford Marlborough Road, Havering, RM7 8AD
- Royston – Durham, Herefordshire, SG8 5GX
- Ruthin, Denbigh Road, Denbighshire, LL15 1BZ
- Saffron Walden, Thaxsted Road, Essex, CB10 2UQ
- Salisbury, London Road, Wiltshire, SP1 3HN
- Sevenoaks, Otford Road, Kent, TN14 5EG
- Sheldon, New Coventry Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B26 3HP
- Shepton Mallet, High Street, Somerset, BA4 5SB
- Skegness, Quora Retail Park, Burgh Road, Lincolnshire, PE25 2RT
- Sleaford, Mareham Lane, , Lincolnshire, NG34 7JP
- Snedshill, Gateway Retail Park, Holyhead Road, Telford and Wrekin, TF2 9NH
- South Ruislip, Victoria Road Retail Park, Victoria Road, London, Hillingdon, HA4 0AJ
- South Street, Willenhall, West Midlands, WV13 3TG
- Southend, 200 Priory Crescent, Essex, SS2 6AH
- Spalding, St Thomas’s Road, Lincolnshire, PE11 2XY
- St Austell, Cnr Sandy Hill/Slades Road, Cornwall, PL25 4HW
- St Neots, Howard Road, Cambridgeshire, PE19 8EX
- St. Leonards, Unit 1 Bulverhythe Retail Park, Bexhill Road, East Sussex, TN38 8FA
- Stamford, Uffington Road, Lincolnshire, PE9 2BF
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Canners, Warwickshire, CV37 0BJ
- Stroud, Bath Road, Gloucestershire, GL5 3TA
- Swindon Romsey Street, Wiltshire, SN2 2AS
- Swindon, Latham Road, SN25 4DL
- Taunton, Bridgwater Road, Somerset, TA2 8BA
- Thorne, Unit 2 Quora Retail Park, South Yorkshire, DN8 5UG
- Topsham, Exeter Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 7DT
- Towcester Road Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1BQ
- Towcester, Old Greens Norton Road, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 8AX
- Tower Road, Unit 1 Gateway Retail Park, Gisleham, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 7NR
- Trentham, Stanley Matthews Way, Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire, ST4 8HP
- Tunstall, Brownhills Road, Staffordshire, ST6 4JU
- Unit 1, The People Building Estate, Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire, HP2 4NW
- Wadebridge, Dunveth Business Park, Cornwall, PL27 7FE
- Weddington Road, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0AH
- Welwyn Garden City, Bessemer Road, Hertfordshire, AL7 1HH
- West Bridgford, The Becket Way, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG2 7DJ
- Weymouth, Unit H, Link Park, Chickerell Link Road, Dorset, DT3 4FL
- Whitburn, 21 Longridge Road,Bathgate, West Lothian, EH47 8HB
- Whitstable, Unit 3, Prospect Retail Park, Kent, CT5 3SD
- Wisbech, Sandyland Street, Cambridgeshire, PE13 1NX
- Witham, Reid Road, Essex, CM8 1XU
- Worcester, Tybridge Street, Worcestershire, WR2 5BA
- Wrexham, Plas Coch Retail Park, LL11 2BA
- Yiewsley, High Street, West Drayton, Hillingdon, UB7 7QN
As Aldi continues to focus on offering the lowest possible prices, shoppers will have to head back in-store for their bargains.
The end of Click & Collect may be a bitter pill to swallow, but with Aldi’s commitment to keeping costs down, there’s still plenty to love about the discount supermarket.
In January last year, The Sun exclusively revealed Aldi was to pull the plug on home deliveries.
Aldi set up delivery for Specialbuys in 2015, but confirmed it would wind down the service before the end of 2023.
In 2022, the discount supermarket stopped working with food delivery app Deliveroo after establishing a relationship in 2020.
Aldi said at the time that home deliveries were never part of the company’s long-term business model.
It is not all bad news for the retailer and customers though.
Aldi is looking to massively grow its number of stores across the UK, previously saying it plans to increase its shop portfolio to 1,500 from around 1,000 currently.
WHAT OTHER SUPERMARKETS OFFER
If Aldi’s latest move has you thinking about taking your custom elsewhere, there are plenty of other retailers still offering a click and collect service.
Here is what some of the major supermarket chains offer.
Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s offers click and collect across 322 UK stores, with customers able to do their shopping online then pick a one hour slot to pick everything up.
Shoppers have to pay a minimum 50p charge to collect items worth £25 or over, otherwise there is a £4 surcharge.
Customers needing their groceries in a hurry can order via same-day click and collect and are charged £2 for orders over £25 and £6 for orders under £25.
Tesco
Tesco offers click and collect across over 500 locations, with shoppers first having to book a slot online before filling up their virtual basket.
Customers have to spend a minimum of £25 and pay 25p for a next-day collection slot while same-day slots are available for up to £2.
If you order for same-day collection, you can collect after 4pm if you book a slot before midday.
Asda
Asda offers click and collect across 450 locations across the UK.
Shoppers have to book a slot via the retailer’s website then fill up their virtual basket or trolley.
There are three different fees depending on what level of service you want.
You can pick up from your nearest collection point within four hours of ordering for a £3.50 fee with no minimum spend.
Meanwhile, as bank holiday looms around the corner, Aldi shoppers will be keen to know what time its branches are open over the August bank holiday.
The retailer operates more than 1,000 supermarkets across the UK, but you can find out everything you need to know about Aldi this bank holiday.
Elsewhere, despite the loss of click & collect, shoppers are racing to their nearest branch to grab a must-have summer essential, available for just 75p.
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