In St Ann’s, people have spoken out about wanting to see a low budget supermarket in the area. The landmark discount store I.C Discounts on Wells Road has recently closed after 28 years and the Aldi on Huntingdon Street, on the suburb's border with the city centre, closed on August 1st 2021.
Now, people in St Ann’s are concerned as they have to either travel to go and do their shopping or go to the Tesco in Victoria Centre which, for some, is expensive. People have outlined what they’d like to see replace what was Aldi on Huntingdon Road with many saying another store.
Builder Aaron Daley, 33 and from St Ann’s, said that more needs to be done with St Ann’s in general. He said: "We have a Heron but what we really need is something like Aldi. I’ve never known an Aldi to just close all of a sudden and that one [on Huntingdon Road] was really popular. I went there all the time, now, I think that there needs to be a low-budget store whether it’s where Aldi was or not but Wells Road is massive, something can be put along there.”
