Aldi and Lidl up share of UK grocer market

Discounters Aldi and Lidl stepped up their march across the UK supermarket industry in the last 12 weeks as the impact of price cuts by the country’s large grocers faded.

Lidl’s sales rose 18% and Aldi’s by a similar amount through October 11, researcher Kantar Worldpanel said in a statement yesterday.

The acceleration of the discounters’ growth deals a blow to grocers such as Tesco and Wal-Mart’s Asda, whose market share has been eroded by the German upstarts.