In my town (in America) there is literally a lidl and aldi across the street from each other

I like to imagine the staff get into fights

Sued

Aldi in the US https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vT5-cV4oMY8&t=19s&pp=ygUIV3NqIGFsZGk%3D

My whole childhood was spent at the Makro, sad that it's gone

In Czechia, you need to legally be an entrepreneur/bussines to get the free Makro membership to shop there.

Think they’re B2B in Germany as well.

You are correct

This map is still useful to remind everyone that Auchan is an amoral American style corporation that keeps doing doing it's best to keep a fascist country attacking Europe well supplied.

As someone who doesn’t have a club card and never will. I do have to shop in Tesco occasionally for smaller things but I have noticed the savings aren’t as much anymore. This is not to justify it, I think there was a big push to get your data and now they have it, they are rolling back to the benefits.

Not that the prices were that great anyway, just brought things down to normal prices.

Edit - also screw you sainsburys for exactly the same thing.

Recently, they started cooperating more and their distribution is mutually exclusive. Yet, it might be better to have them in different colours.

Is Billa a franchise? If it is, I would open one in Poland, just to finish the collection.

Interesting enough, the chains in this graphic that operate in Germany are German. Apart from some small outlets, the German market is controlled by German chains. It's just that these also became relatively successful internationally.

Norway has SPAR, right?

I thought it was owned by Walmart tbh, but apparently they sold most of it. They still retain 10% shares though.

Tbf, I think all of them took advantage of COVID to some extent

The card thing is annoying though. Tesco seemed to have pioneered it, and now Morrisons and the Co-op seems to be doing the same. Not sure about others.

Morrisons, Sainsbury's, M&S also aren't on the list, actually. But then again I don't think I've ever seen them outside the UK, so maybe that's why.

E: I've been told elsewhere that Morrisons was taken over by a US equity firm.

And they give eggs :)

Oh, and Normal (which I think is scandi) is really good to buy name brands.

Between Coop, Rema and Norgesgruppen(Meny, Kiwi, Spar etc.) nobody have really been able to establish themselves. Lidl tried but only laster a couple years or so.

Well, in Norway we have a cartel/triopoly which is not good. Lidl tried to establish here, but were quickly squeezed out of competition.

the countries listed at 2 hardly compare to croatia in most things. croatia has a thriving tourism industry and more money. they just skip the worst-off part of europe

Also Norway is not part of the EU or the customs union. Together with pretty harsh tariffs on agricultural products in direct competition with Norwegian agriculture. Lidl couldn't import and dump prices on staple products in meat and dairy. They also had stores that was so different from what we were used to it alienated lots of customers. Not a big loss tbh, it's a shite chain anyway.

That being said there are issues with this sector in Norway with three operators with more and more vertical integration. No real competition

I think most countries also have a local chain that is not here, there are many more companies where you can get groceries than mentioned here, also big companies that operate in 1 or 2 countries.

Isn't the CEO of Mercadona financing the far right in Spain Vox party? Did you wonder why Mercadona only hires spanish people, only to treat them like shit later anyway? Also all this unfaithful practices they did to fuck up competition and all the increase of prices even when the government reduced the tax...

Man, fuck Mercadona.

Well, Walmart tried

aldi and lidl created a fierce competition. I've seen walmart and spar straight up give up and leave. apparently they couldn't compete. later aldi expanded to the US

Apparently Morrisons in the UK is American

they're too expensive for most of us

What do you mean? I'm not sure I know of any "local shops" or what that means precisely or how that's different from a supermarket exactly.

To me there's grocery stores like Tesco's and Sainsbury's and the rest of these seem to be in line with that.

Do you mean like corner shops/stores like an off-licence?

Because the local shop doesn't sell pork shoulder for £3.79/KG

Lol, this is great in theory but the supermarkets ensured most went bust years ago, we have one butcher in the village everyone else went years ago, no veg or anything else

Unfortunately they cost a lot more or often don't exist.

Plus, many of us are over-stressed and overworked as is. Going to 5 different places to buy your stuff was a lot easier back in the days when most things were in walking distance and only one person in the household had to work full time.

Coop bought out Netto in Sweden, so it would be gray for that map too.

I try to. But fucking hell, Maxima and Lidl sometimes have so much better prices. Though to be fair, it's usually because of the fact that they sell more foreign foodstuffs while the local companies sell more local stuff. So buying cheap stuff from Maxima or Lidl is a double whammy to the local economy. Which is why I haven't been to Lidl in like half a year. Maxima at least has local products too

And to be clear, even the local alternatives are supermarkets generally. Very few small independent stores are left and the ones that do still exist are usually significantly more expensive and don't carry a lot of stuff.

We have those in Italy (all.coop). However, the biggest one (coopalleanza3-0.it) seems to be up to mischiefs lately (asking for location on page load, strange customer points programmes, …)

I'm from Latvia originally, Maxima should fucking die.