Aldi is launching click-and-collect services in Leicestershire for the first time after extending a trial to its Ashby store.

From today (Wednesday), customers will be able to order from a full range of groceries online from groceries.aldi.co.uk then collect them, in pre-booked one-hour collection slots, from the supermarket's store in Ashby.

On arrival at dedicated click-and-collect points in the store car park, customers will be able to have their shopping brought to their cars by Aldicolleagues contact-free, in line with social distancing rules.

The extension will bring the total number of stores trialling the new service to nn after stores began testing it in parts of Staffordshire and the East Midlands last month.

If successful, the trial will be extended to other stores across the country in the near future.

Giles Hurley, Chief Executive Officer, Aldi UK and Ireland, said: "Aldi's quality products and unbeatable prices have never been so in demand.

"Extending this trial is about providing thousands more of our existing customers with another convenient way to shop with us, while also making Aldi accessible for many others who may not have shopped with us before."

As well as click-and-collect, Aldi is already trialling a rapid delivery service in partnership with Deliveroo.

Customers living near selected stores in the East Midlands, London, Cambridge and Greater Manchester can order from a range of over 300 Aldi products and have them delivered to their doorstep in as little as 30 minutes.