Expanding supermarket Lidl offering £22,500 to lucky people who can find them new stores - with the hunt on in Emsworth

Expanding supermarket Lidl is calling on help from the public to identify places for new stores – with around £22,500 being offered up to the lucky person who successfully introduces a site.

By Sam Pole

Published 27th Apr 2022, 16:57 BST

Lidl. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard SUS-220427-165334001

The discounter store, which is investing £1.3bn in its expansion across 2021 and 2022, has sparked a flurry of excitement after revealing its finder’s fee offering for areas it is looking to set up shop in, which include Emsworth, Netley, Winchester, Lymington and Chandlers Ford.

The fee is either 1.5 per cent of the total freehold purchase price or 10 per cent of the first year’s rent for leaseholds, which would equate to £22,500 for a completed £1.5m site purchase.