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Aldi raises pressure on UK grocers with online foray

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 admin 2014-operating, contained-horse, europe, headache, london, major-grocers, matthew-barnes, most-exciting, prepared-meals, selling-wine, two-frozen

By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – The British arm of German discount supermarket Aldi will launch an online operation next year, marking its first foray into e-commerce in Europe and giving the UK's major grocers yet another headache to contend with in a brutally competitive market. Privately owned Aldi [ALDIEI.UL], which posted a 4 percent dip in 2014 operating profit on Monday, showing even discounters can't engage in a price war and emerge unscathed, said it will begin selling wine by the case online in the first quarter of next year.