Aldi overtakes Co-op to become fifth largest supermarket in UK

Aldi has overtaken the Co-op to become the fifth largest supermarket in the UK, now sitting behind the ‘Big Four’ grocers Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco.
It’s an impressive achievement given just 10 years ago the so-called discounter was the tenth biggest food retailer. But, on the back of a 12.4% year-on-year increase in sales for the last quarter (up to 29 January 2017) the brand increased its market share by 0.6 percentage points to clinch fifth place for the f