CONSTRUCTION work has begun on a new supermarket in Burntwood.
Lidl is building on the plot off Cannock Road with the store expected to open early next year.
The 1,500 square metre outlet will also feature a bakery, customer toilets and parking. It is expected to create around 40 new jobs.
Joe Caunt, regional head of property at Lidl GB, said:
“It’s fantastic to see construction underway on our first store in Burntwood.
“This brand-new store reflects our commitment to making our quality, affordable offering accessible to communities across the country.
“We’re proud to say that this state-of-the-art discount supermarket will create around 40 new jobs, with all colleagues receiving amongst the highest hourly rates in the sector.
“We’re currently on track to open our doors at the beginning of next year and look forward to keeping the community updated.”
ITS good for burntwood.morrisons is getting too expensive to shop at .
There’s an irony in the fact that Lichfield has a budget supermarket yet Burntwood does not.
@Dishy Des: Burntwood already has an Aldi. @Richard Perrins: Everywhere is getting more expensive, including so-called discounters. Factors would include, among others, Brexit, Covid and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent cutting off of supplies of cheap gas, cheap grain, etc. And Trump is just the latest.
Dishy Des – Not heard of Aldi, Burntwood.
Mr. Sholl, blaming everything on, amongst other things, Brexit and President Trump is wearing a bit thin🙄
You also omitted to mention our idiot Government shooting itself and, by extension, all of us in the foot with their ludicrous anti-business tax hikes and the crazed fanatic Miliband’s Net Zero nonsense.
If they were to stop sending billions abroad while screwing every last penny out of British subjects we might actually get some growth in the economy+an easing in the cost of living. I’m not holding my breath🤨
Mrs G – Blaming others for the continuing and increasing problems brought about by Brexit is wearing very thin.
We all know that Brexit took 4% off the economy. Something you fail to blame someone else for.
Of course prices have increased due to the stupidity of Brexit. Extra paperwork and extra inspections means they are bound to.
Our social and cultural lives have been damaged by the ridiculous way we put sanctions onto ourselves.
Stop seeking others for what went wrong and tell us of all the wonderful benefits of Brexit.
There are none.
We are citizens not subjects.
@’Mrs G’: Yes, I would agree, Brexit is wearing a bit thin. All those lies about the sunlit uplands where you could just walk into A&E and see a doctor immediately. All that propaganda about immigration going down once we left the EU. That wonderful deal we were going to get with America. How Turkey was about to join the EU. How undemocratic the EU was meant to be with all its democratically elected Members of the European Parliament and national politicians in the Council, all this from Nigel ‘I’ll-democratise-Reform-eventually’ Farage.
As for Net Zero, I suppose you’d prefer to see global warming. You do realise it will lead inevitably to more migration? It seems you’re the one shooting themselves in the foot.
This LIDL store will impact ALDI far more than Morrisons.