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Germany’s Aldi Nord is going one step further in the intense competition among discount supermarket chains: The company will build thousands of apartments above 30 of its stores in Berlin, where there is an acute shortage of housing, reports German broadcast station Deutsche Welle. Some 2,000 apartments will be rented to students and others in need of affordable housing. “This is our idea: an Aldi store on the ground floor, and flats above it,” an Aldi spokesman told the broadcast station. Construction is now under way on about 200 apartments over two supermarket branches, and plans have been submitted for an additional 15 locations.
By Edmund Mander
Director, Editor-In-Chief/SCT