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Aldi is to open a store on Commercial Street in Leith in 2020.

The budget supermarket chain will also be bringing new shops to Houstoun Road in Livingston and Haddington's Gateside Commercial Park in the next 12 months.

Overall six stores will open across Scotland, with a £25 million storage and chill facility in Bathgate also set to be operation by the end of April.

Other new shops will be located in Glasgow and Ayrshire, with 200 new jobs being created throughout the country.

This will take the total number of staff employed at Scottish stores to 2800.

Richard Holloway, Regional Managing Director for Scotland said: “This is an exciting time for Aldi as we look ahead to 2020 and plan for the next 25 years in Scotland. Our new state-of-the-art storage and chill facility will be fully operational by the end of April, which will aid our expansion across Scotland while allowing us to increase the range of Scottish products available on our shelves.

“For several years Aldi has led the way with local sourcing, and we see Scotland as a key area of growth for the business. We’re proud to have reached our ambition to stock over 450 Scottish products significantly ahead of our target of the end of 2020, and we will continue to work in partnership with our local suppliers to increase this to over 500 locally sourced products in the next two years.

“With six new stores planned for next year and a further six being refreshed and upgraded, we’re looking forward to serving even more local communities and expanding our market share even further."

Aldi has also announced that it will continue to support the Kiltwalk charity event in 2020.

Mr Holloway added: “We’re also very much looking forward to continuing our relationship with Kiltwalk and fuelling even more Kiltwalkers next year. It’s been fantastic to be involved with such an ambitious and forward-thinking charity and we’re looking forward to supplying our energy boosting snacks to participants at next year’s events. Hopefully Kevin the Carrot will make an appearance again as well.”

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