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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No Aldi in Denmark

Map is not amazing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll take your word for it, but I wouldn't rule out there being some technicality like "one lone Aldi right on the Slesvig border".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

@[email protected]

According to Wikipedia, they were closed in 2023.

Aldi lukkede i Danmark i 2023.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Oooh, so I was whooshed, that comment makes a lot more sense then.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

Is poland collecting supermarket chains like pokemon cards?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

This is outdated. Tesco moved out of Poland a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Didn't know there were TESCOs outside of the UK, TIL.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

There is no tesco in poland anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Which European supermarkets have non-European branches?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Delhaize has it's Food Lion branch in the US. Delhaize is a Belgian chain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V., commonly known as Ahold Delhaize, is a Dutch-Belgian multinational retail and wholesale holding company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And one not shown in this map though…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I only know this from hearsay online - but I think Aldi has a decent US presence (I'd be interested if it's Süd or Nord that managed to branch out there, or both 🤔), and I heard of Lidl existing in the US as well.

As for Asia, Australia, Latin America, Canada, Africa, India, the middle East.... I never heard anything, but it would be interesting to hear if someone has some experience there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

süd operates as aldi in the u.s. nord bought trader joes in '79. their target markets are a little different with aldi being more mainstream including smaller cities; while trader joes tends to stay in higher-income neighborhoods of metro areas and larger cities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Aldi has a presence in Australia in major cities, they are generally seen as an alternative to the major duopoly of Coles and Woolworths.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I know Tesco experimented with USA locations but IDK if it lasted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I remember seeing Carrefour in Buenos Aires ten years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Aldi is present on many continents

Carrefour used to exist in China (not sure about now)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Homeplus in South Korea at least used to be a Tesco thing and you could get Tesco-branded products there. Homeplus still exists, but I'm not sure if it's still linked to Tesco any more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Spar? How widespread are those

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

There are now over 13,900 SPAR branded stores in over 48 countries on four continents, meeting the needs of over 14.7 million consumers every day.

https://spar-international.com/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Spar is very widespread in Europe, however it is a network of differently owned companies and not one big companies like these others

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Certainly were present in Russia before sanctions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Massive in UK / Ireland too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Very widespread in Austria, second chain that comes to my mind after Billa.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

7, tesco is no more

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Lidl will be soon in Bosnia

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never saw a Metro in spain

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~Same in the Netherlands~~

Edit: I just looked it up and apparently Makro is owned by Metro. Plenty of Makro's in the Netherlands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Carrefour has branches in israel

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It is in France. Private individuals can’t even enter the shops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It used to be like that in the past in my country, now it's B2C too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Carrefour is on the BSD list tho ! This article gives more info on how it supports Israel, even if it weren't, it's expensive compared to other supermarkets in France like Lidl, Aldi or even Auchan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

French retailer Auchan close to selling its stores in Russia https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/10/25/french-retailer-auchan-close-to-selling-its-stores-in-russia_6730451_19.html

Auchan leaves Russia: local buyer found for subsidiary - 24 October 2024 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/10/24/7481204/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The CEO of the Metro supermarket chain confirmed plans to continue business in Russia. The National Agency for Prevention of Corruption included Metro AG in the list of international war sponsors.

https://leave-russia.org/metro-ag

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Roubles talk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least the NL as well, I was surprised to see them in Swiss!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Swiss rules and regulations are so strict, you can't even think of not paying taxes: cooperatives customers and workers usually have that mindset so that fits in some way.

Let alone where they're dirty money comes from, their state implementation looks well done in swiss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the U.S., Aldi > Lidl, for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

In the Netherlands, lidl is a lot better than Aldi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've definitely seen Aldi in the Czech Republic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Norway is like "No".