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Aldi Netherlands opened Aldi Shop & Go, a 370 m2 app-only store in central Utrecht where Trigo's ceiling cameras and shelf sensors let shoppers take goods and walk out, paying automatically - the Aldi Nord group's first checkout-free test store.

Publishing its 2021 sustainability report, Aldi Nord said it had cut greenhouse gas emissions almost 50% since 2015 and set a new group target of a further 55% cut by 2030 against 2020.

Aldi announced it will quit Denmark after 45 years, selling 114 of its 188 Danish stores and three logistics centres to Norway's Rema 1000 and closing or selling the rest during 2023.

The Theo Albrecht and Berthold Albrecht family branches agreed to end years of disputes and legal fights and to place Aldi Nord under a single holding company owned half by each branch's foundations.

Denmark's Competition Council approved Rema 1000's purchase of 114 Aldi stores, seven store projects and three distribution centres after Rema pledged to sell stores in a few local areas, starting Aldi's final three months in Denmark.

With the 2023 retail pay talks stuck, Aldi Nord raised tariff pay for its more than 39,000 store staff in Germany by 5.3% from 1 October, to be set against whatever ver.di and the employers finally agreed.

Aldi's final 15 Danish stores, on Funen and in southern Jutland, closed by 30 November 2023 after a closing-down sale, ending the discounter's 46 years in Denmark and handing the shops and staff to Rema 1000.

Aldi Nord said it would close two regional companies, with their warehouses and offices, at the 2024/25 year end and hand their 146 stores to neighbouring regions; the admin and logistics staff lose their workplaces.

Aldi Nord's 42,800-square-metre distribution centre near Lehrte-Aligse began supplying 77 stores in Lower Saxony, completing the modernisation of its German logistics network.

Aldi Polska opened its 400th Polish store on 26 November 2025 in the new Rock Park retail centre in Tarnobrzeg, a 1,000 m2 shop in its new fresh-food layout, with more openings due before year-end.

Aldi Nord's rebuilt store in Wolfsburg-Wendschott, a timber-frame building with 1,300 square metres of sales floor, is the first in Germany built to a building specification Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd now share.

Salmonella was found in a batch of All Seasons 8 Kräuter frozen herbs sold in Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd stores in all 16 German states and online, and the producer called it back.

Group board member Nicolás de Lope took over as CEO of Aldi Nord from Torsten Hufnagel, who left after 28 years for personal reasons; Germany chief Felix Rottmann moved up to the group board.

From January 2026 Aldi's Polish store staff earn PLN 5,700 to 6,450 gross a month and store managers up to PLN 9,350, with every employee also getting PLN 400 a month on a prepaid card for shopping at Aldi.

Aldi Polska cut the ribbon on a 43,000 m2 distribution centre at Emilianów near Warsaw, its third in Poland after Chorzów and Lisi Ogon, supplying about 120 stores in central and north-eastern Poland.

Aldi reached 500 stores in Spain with a 1,200 m2 supermarket in Mijas (Málaga), 24 years after entering the country - also the 5,555th store of the whole Aldi Nord group.

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli was found in All Seasons 8 Kräuter frozen herbs delivered to every Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd region in Germany, the same product recalled for Salmonella in December.

Lars Kürten, previously deputy CEO of Aldi France, took charge of Aldi Nord's German business from Felix Rottmann, who stays on the group executive board.

Staff shut dozens of Aldi stores across Belgium, about 60 by the next day, after managers told them the chain was exploring Sunday opening to keep up with Lidl and other rivals.

France's consumer-fraud inspectors found nine Aldi stores in Seine-Saint-Denis inflating reference prices and running "promotions" for an average of 288 days; Aldi's Dammartin buying centre accepted a EUR 350,000 settlement fine.

Aldi presented unions with a plan to open all its Belgian stores on Sundays from 8:30 to 13:00, staffed by volunteers paid a premium or given extra leave; unions said the hours break the Sunday closing law.

Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd said they will not offer app-only coupons or loyalty prices, launching ad campaigns that pitch the same shelf price for every shopper against rivals' bonus apps.

Aldi Belgium opened a 1,200 m2 store at the former Shopping Cora centre on Drève Olympique in Anderlecht, the first of three Aldi stores in ex-Cora malls and a rare move by the discounter into Belgian shopping centres.

Heidemark recalled 800 g packs of breaded Meine Metzgerei turkey schnitzel sold at Aldi Nord in 11 German states because sharp plastic fragments could be inside.

Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd share a stand at Expo Real, Europe's biggest property fair, to pitch store sites, mixed-use buildings and sale-and-leaseback deals to investors and developers.

Aldi Portugal plans to grow from 161 stores at the end of 2025 to 200 by 2030 and open a new northern logistics platform in Santo Tirso the same year, part of a EUR 500 million plan to reach 250 stores by 2035.