The discount grocer is investing £500 million in new stores as well as a head office in southwest London AlamyForty new Lidl stores will be opened in London as part of a £500 million investment in the capital by the German discounter. Lidl indicated yesterday that the new stores would open over the next five years and would add to the 88 outlets it already has within the M25. The new stores would create about 1,500 jobs across Greater London in the “long term”, it said. The plans include an opening on Tottenham Court Road, near Warren Street tube station, which would be the grocer’s most central store in the city. The investment includes its new head office in Tolworth, southwest London, which is under construction.

Source: The Times June 12, 2019 23:07 UTC