My nearest Aldi is near my nearest Lidl, and is a good source for gardening kit. I tend to use both for non-grocery specials, and foreign food promotions, and not so much for the chocolate now that Lidl have moved it and I don't know where it is. Lovely selection of estate varieties from Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, Madagascar, Ecuador...
My village shop is a Co-op, and much gratitude is felt to it by the locals. It was a Budgens, and they suddenly decided to move out just before Christmas, leaving the village, which is quite large, with no grocery store. The Coop moved in and turned it round within a couple of days, and has most stuff that I need at short notice. Next nearest shop is Waitrose.
There's another of those now in Dartford, replacing the Safeway, and it is doing well, though I wouldn't have thought that town was one it had as a major target. Unlike Tesco, which is doing one of its bids for the main park, and has emptied a street of shops, leaving boarded up fronts.

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