The Aldi, Tesco, ASDA, Lidl, Iceland, M&S and Morrisons supermarkets set to open and close this year

Earlier this week supermarket giant Iceland announced it's set to close several of its UK stores. Five Iceland supermarkets have been earmarked for closure, with the Birmingham Road Retail Park, Bromsgrove branch and the Chineham Shopping Centre, Basingstoke branch first to go on February 25.

Marks and Spencer (M&S) also Is proposing the closure of a number of stores across the UK months after its announcement of 67 larger shop closures. However, there is a silver lining, as M&S has now confirmed the opening of more M&S Simply Food Hall shops.

Supermarket giants Tesco, ASDA, Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are also planning openings and closures in 2023. Here are all of the opening and closing updates for every major supermarket in the UK, according to the Mirror:

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Tesco

The UK's largest supermarket chain currently has 804 larger stores and nearly 2,000 convenience stores in the UK and is planning to open more. As announced in the group's interim reports last year, in 2023 Tesco plans to open a further two superstores and a further 52 Tesco Express sites and 15 One Stop stores in the second half of the year.

The group have not announced entire store closures but has announced the closure of its meat, fish and deli counters in 279 stores this year.

Lidl

Lidl's managed to open 54 new stores in 2022 and had originally planned to open more stores this year in pursuit to have 1,100, up from the 950 it has now, by the end of 2025. However, a recent report by The Grocer revealed that the discount supermarket chain was going to scale back its growth efforts by 50%.

Instead, Lidl is to focus on growing its