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  1. LLANELLI: Aldi to build £7m supermarket on site of Pinopolis — the entertainment centre that only opened three years ago

    Aldi is planning a brand new £7 million store in Llanelli — and this time, it’s heading to Sandy Road, on the site of the Pinopolis family entertainment centre opposite Ysgol y Strade and Coleg Sir Gâr’s Graig Campus.

    The site is currently home to Pinopolis, which only opened in April 2023, offering bowling, darts, soft play and a diner under one roof. It won’t be fighting the development.

    David Edwards of Pinopolis confirmed the centre was now looking for a new home, saying the Sandy Road site was “no longer economically or operationally viable.”

    He added: “Aldi provides a deliverable alternative to the site, which will bring benefits to the local community. We encourage our customers to support the application and have their say on the consultation.”

    Pinopolis on Sandy Road, Llanelli
    (Image: Google Maps)

    Aldi has been on an aggressive UK expansion drive in recent years, actively targeting new sites in towns where it believes there is unmet demand for discount grocery shopping. The Sandy Road proposal represents what the company describes as a “renewal of its commitment” to Llanelli.

    This would actually be the third Aldi to serve Llanelli. The original store was in the town centre, next to the historic Buckleys Brewery building. It closed last year, having been deemed unsuitable due to operational constraints — and plans were subsequently approved to convert it into a Pure Gym.

    The closure disappointed many shoppers who valued the convenience of a town centre location. The second store — which opened at Trostre in December 2021 — remains open. The proposed Sandy Road store would be in addition to Trostre, not a replacement for it.

    Aldi real estate director Rob Jones said: “We are thrilled to bring forward plans for a new Aldi store in Llanelli. We encourage residents to participate in our consultation to learn more about the scheme and share their views.”

    According to Aldi’s own figures, the proposed store would create up to 40 new jobs, with store assistants paid a minimum of £13.50 an hour. Additional employment would be generated during the construction phase and through the supply chain, the company says.

    The plans include 133 car parking spaces — six accessible and nine parent and child spaces.

    There is one obvious question the planning application will need to answer: traffic. Sandy Road has been one of Llanelli’s most stubborn congestion hotspots for years.

    The problems intensified following the installation of traffic lights to serve the housing estate built on the site of the former Stradey Park rugby ground — the historic home of the Scarlets and Llanelli RFC before the move to Parc y Scarlets.

    Carmarthenshire Council has made multiple attempts to ease the congestion, including road improvement works and junction changes.

    Councillors said the most recent improvements were already making a difference — but the arrival of a large supermarket on the same stretch will inevitably revive those concerns.

    Aldi says families in towns without access to a discount supermarket pay up to £836 more per year on average for their groceries — rising to £2,437 in areas dominated by higher-priced supermarkets. The company says the new store would help tackle that “postcode penalty” for residents in west Llanelli, Pwll, Burry Port and surrounding communities.

    A statutory pre-application consultation is running until 11 June.

    More on retail in Llanelli

    Former Llanelli Aldi could become a gym
    How the town centre store’s closure led to plans for a Pure Gym on the site.

    Opening date for Llanelli’s Trostre Aldi announced
    When the Trostre store opened in December 2021 — Llanelli’s current Aldi offering.

    Entertainment for all the family as Pinopolis opens in Llanelli
    The launch of the venue that now faces making way for the new Aldi store.

    Councillors say Sandy Road changes are already easing congestion
    The most recent chapter in Sandy Road’s long-running traffic story.

    #ALDI #Llanelli #Pinopolis #SandyRoad #supermarket
  2. Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..

    "More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.

    Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.

    Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.

    “Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”

    Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.

    “There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism

  3. Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..

    "More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.

    Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.

    Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.

    “Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”

    Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.

    “There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism

  4. Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..

    "More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.

    Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.

    Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.

    “Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”

    Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.

    “There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism

  5. Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..

    "More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.

    Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.

    Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.

    “Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”

    Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.

    “There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism

  6. Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..

    "More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.

    Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.

    Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.

    “Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”

    Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.

    “There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism

  7. #Aldi #Lidl

    Aldi oder Lidl? Welches Unternehmen steht für mehr Tierwohl? Mehr Ökologie? Mehr Menschlichkeit? Bessere Bezahlung? Mehr Gesellschaftssinn?

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  8. #Aldi #Lidl

    Aldi oder Lidl? Welches Unternehmen steht für mehr Tierwohl? Mehr Ökologie? Mehr Menschlichkeit? Bessere Bezahlung? Mehr Gesellschaftssinn?

    Neuer Chat - Mistral Chat
    chat.mistral.ai/chat/4813bb36-

  9. #Aldi #Lidl

    Aldi oder Lidl? Welches Unternehmen steht für mehr Tierwohl? Mehr Ökologie? Mehr Menschlichkeit? Bessere Bezahlung? Mehr Gesellschaftssinn?

    Neuer Chat - Mistral Chat
    chat.mistral.ai/chat/4813bb36-

  10. There's a special place in the next life for people who try to take my shopping cart in the Aldi parking lot without offering me a quarter in return.
    #aldi #shoppingcart #sundayscaries #grocerystores

  11. Jetzt wird es spannend... Aldi hat mir geantwortet. Es wird an "meinem" Aldi demnächst Fahrradständer geben! Ich hatte mir erlaubt, mich zu beschweren, dass am Supermarkt keinerlei Fahrradbügel vorhanden sind. Bin gespannt, was die dort anbringen werden!

    #Aldi #Fahrradinfrastruktur

  12. Jetzt wird es spannend... Aldi hat mir geantwortet. Es wird an "meinem" Aldi demnächst Fahrradständer geben! Ich hatte mir erlaubt, mich zu beschweren, dass am Supermarkt keinerlei Fahrradbügel vorhanden sind. Bin gespannt, was die dort anbringen werden!

    #Aldi #Fahrradinfrastruktur

  13. Check the weight of your #groceries. All the big grocery chains, #Walmart, #Kroger, and #Aldi, are all shorting the weight of products on the shelves. #Cheese #Meat #Vegetables

    #Gas is being watered down with #ethanol.

    Watch your wallet, people. The #billionaires want their #money.

  14. Check the weight of your #groceries. All the big grocery chains, #Walmart, #Kroger, and #Aldi, are all shorting the weight of products on the shelves. #Cheese #Meat #Vegetables

    #Gas is being watered down with #ethanol.

    Watch your wallet, people. The #billionaires want their #money.

  15. Check the weight of your #groceries. All the big grocery chains, #Walmart, #Kroger, and #Aldi, are all shorting the weight of products on the shelves. #Cheese #Meat #Vegetables

    #Gas is being watered down with #ethanol.

    Watch your wallet, people. The #billionaires want their #money.

  16. Check the weight of your #groceries. All the big grocery chains, #Walmart, #Kroger, and #Aldi, are all shorting the weight of products on the shelves. #Cheese #Meat #Vegetables

    #Gas is being watered down with #ethanol.

    Watch your wallet, people. The #billionaires want their #money.

  17. Check the weight of your #groceries. All the big grocery chains, #Walmart, #Kroger, and #Aldi, are all shorting the weight of products on the shelves. #Cheese #Meat #Vegetables

    #Gas is being watered down with #ethanol.

    Watch your wallet, people. The #billionaires want their #money.