// Lidl has called on the British public to find it some new store sites as it pushes ahead with its plan to open 1,100 UK stores by 2025
// Members of the public will receive either 1.5% of the total freehold purchase price or 10% of the first year’s rent for leaseholds for identifying suitable sites
Lidl has called on the British public to identify sites for its new stores and will pay a finder’s fee to anyone that highlights a suitable location.
The fee will either be 1.5% of the total freehold purchase price or 10% of the first year’s rent for leaseholds. This would equate to £22,500 for a completed £1.5m site purchase.
The discounter, which is investing £1.3 billion in expansion across 2021 and 2022, has published a list of desired locations across the UK which includes: Bristol, Derby, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Southampton, Swansea, Birmingham, Sheffield, Cambridge and Edinburgh.
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Lidl aims to open 1,100 UK stores by the end of 2025. Since the turn of the year the discounter, which last month overtook The Co-op to become the UK’s sixth largest supermarket, has already opened 23 new stores.
Lidl GB chief development officer Richard Taylor said: “We know that the majority of British shoppers still love doing their shopping in person and we are as committed as ever to opening new stores and enhancing our existing ones.
“We’re opening an average of one new store a week, which is incredible, and our teams have done a phenomenal job of keeping that pace going over the last couple of years. But there are still communities up and down the country that are telling us how much they want – and need – a Lidl store.”
“We work with some of the best people in the industry to identify new sites, but we also know how engaged our future and existing customers are and we want to build on this.”
Members of the public are encouraged to check Lidl’s site requirements and contact the discounter’s property team with further details. More information can be found here: www.lidl.co.uk/about-us/property
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These schemes are always a scam. Travelodge used to do the same but every site you sent to them they would claim they already know about it, how can you prove they don’t? You can’t and they know that, then a few years later you see them building a branch on that site but you won’t get any money.
Could not agree more.
We are a large village Sawston about 6 miles outside cambridge with a population of around 8000 and a development of around 300 properties in the process of being built . As you are probably aware there is a proposed congestion charge to in Cambridge which will put off people coming into cambridge. While we have one the most profitable co ops in the eastern area in our village we require a more competitive store .Around us within 2/3miles we have 7other villages with a new large village in the process of being built in proximity of this area . Which could increase the population to 25000people plus the new village . There is a large area Dales Manor Business Park in the village with a new Cambridge City foot ball stadium just been completed which has some very large areas of vacant spaces