Supermarket giant Aldi has announced plans for a new store in Ryde.
The proposed store will be located in the Neutrik building off Cothey Way which has been vacant for 3 years.
Up to 40 new jobs for the new store would be created, paid at the highest hourly rates in the sector, with as many as 32 new jobs created by the flexible employment space located in the eastern portion of the site.
Further job opportunities are set to be created in the construction and supply chain for both developments.
It is proposed that the store will have ‘ample’ car parking with 107 spaces, including accessible, parent & child and EV spaces, as well as extensive cycle parking for customers and staff to encourage active travel.
Aldi officials claim the total investment will be around £10 million.
The Isle of Wight is currently home to 2 Aldi stores on Three Gates Road in Cowes and on Whitecross Lane in Lake. This new store will be just a few hundred metres from Ryde’s Tesco Extra store.
Matthias Daly, Aldi Real Estate Director, has said:
“We are proud to be proposing a new Aldi store in Ryde. We encourage residents to participate in our virtual consultation or attend our public exhibition to learn more about the scheme and share their views.
“This represents a major investment in Ryde, bringing new jobs and better choice for shoppers.”
To view a Virtual Exhibition, visit aldiconsultation.co.uk/ryde to scour the plans and provide feedback. The consultation period will run from 11th – 27th June 2025
Might have to do something about the traffic
going into McDonald’s, it’s a nightmare most days.
So many Numpty’s use this establishment, it’s an
accident waiting too happen.
I am surprised the Highways person for the Ryde area as
not noticed, maybe he or she gets free Burgers to turn a blind
eye!
Lol
Couldn’t have said it better myself
According to you, any person who does anything is a ‘numpty’.
Grow up and learn some new words.
Idiot is that better.
Well done you finally learned a new word! Now we can hope and pray you learn how to actually do something meaningful in life instead of moaning on every story on this ‘news’ website
Not every story, mainly speeding motorists.
We don;t need yet another supermarket, especially one so cl;ose to the main Tesco on the Island. It doesn’t give us more choice, it just waters down the range of goods the stores can afford to offer us.
Keeps the prices down!
Surely competition is healthy. Good luck to them, empty buildings are a burden on the economy.
Um, actually yes, Ryde does need another supermarket! We have been stuck with just Tesco and Gateway/Somerfield/Co-op (which is rubbish) for the last forty years since Tesco first opened while Newport has gained every supermarket going. Even Sandown, resembling Dunkirk from 1940, has access to a better variety of supermarkets than Ryde with the Lake stores nearby.
(Yes, I realise Ryde also has an Iceland but that hardly counts!)
Ryde has the largest population of any town on the Island, so yes, per capita, Ryde definitely needs Aldi (though it would be better if it was in, or nearer, the High Street to help keep people in the town centre).
Aldi and Lidl should look at opening a store in West Wight. A captive audience. A great shame when Tesco took over the Co-Op at Freshwater. Lidl would have done well there.
I miss the CO-OP in Freshwater, CO-OP offer
excellent quality at excellent prices.
They do great deals for their members.
The local roads will not be able to cope with the extra traffic, especially the Cothey Way industrial estate which is already congested with parking, this would just cause chaos.
I also thought there was provision for a new supermarket on the Pennyfeathers development plan so that would make three in a very short distance.
Surely other communities on the island could be better serviced with a more local supermarket such as south or west wight therefore reducing food miles, pollution and congestion on the island
Well what shame. It has been approved so stick that in your pipe and smoke it
Good news at last tescos will get hammered greedy tescos pay there staff rubbish money while ripping people off with highly inflated prices, even after clubcard reductions which they inflate the price then reduce the price to what it was in the first place making you think your saving money.
The Government set the minimum wage and if that’s what
Tesco pay, that’s it.
Better to be in employment than out of employment.
Tesco staff get benefits galore:-
Share save scheme and discounts on shopping etc etc
There is no share save scheme at Aldi or Lidl.
Well sorry but I like it…tesco think they own the world and especially ryde…there prices are way too high and I believe that lots of there profits go to Israel to fund more bombs to murder people..so aldis fine by me thankyou very much
Good. Not enough in this area. I was an avid tesco fan but their greed has upped prices too much that I now go to lake. I for one will shop there . I’m more in favour of this then yet another burger bar so close together.
I think it’s a great idea especially for those on lower incomes in our area. Hopefully the ridiculous system outside Mac Donald’s will be revised for the new Aldi. I agree it’s a complete shambles up there.
I have no idea why the authorities have let
McDonald’s get away with causing such traffic
problems for all these years.
Obviously the 2 MPs or Council Leader never pass
this death trap!
It will be part time jobs and traffic mayhem.
If there are any shops in Ryde that can survive at all, they will probably lay people off or close. So no gain, local people then have to use some kind of transport to go out of town shopping.
All because the majority of shoppers are not prepared to pay a fair price for food, local farms suffer, quality of products fall because customers want cheap stuff, it’s a disaster! We are doomed!
Brilliant. Aldi announces a new store roughly twenty seconds from a Tesco, presumably to see if Ryde spontaneously achieves supermarket critical mass. At least now residents can conveniently compare the price of existential despair across two adjacent car parks while drivers practice performance art around McDonald’s.
Welcome to Ryde: the town planners’ practical joke that just keeps giving.
Not there please, never go in em they’re like the Hotel California can go in but never leave, one till open & half-a dozen customers with full trolleys in front “life’s to short”.