Discounter Lidl ramped up pressure on the major UK supermarkets today by announcing it will spend £220m on 20 new stores, creating 2,500 jobs.
The move will take the German discount chain, backed by parent company Schwarz Group, from 600 UK stores to 620 by the end of this year.
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