I feel like it would maybe be more useful to see which American chains, if any, operate in Europe.
It seems half the supermarkets here in Dennark are Norwegian chains, for some reason. Not sure if there are any non-European ones around.
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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.
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where Spar?
Not sure I'd push Tesco as a great company. They are pioneers of data collection through the Clubcard and absolutely hammer you on price if you don't have one.
That is sadly a trend I witness heavily here. Have a card or pay a lot more. Except Aldi they all do that now. You can't trust any discount-signs anymore as they all have a Lil footnote รก LA "only with our app". Boycotting this trend seems to be hard ๐
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Aldi Sรผd and Nord are not really the same chain
Recently, they started cooperating more and their distribution is mutually exclusive. Yet, it might be better to have them in different colours.
Ah interesting. Maybe the families made up.
None of these chains are present in Norway. Lidl tried years ago and gave up. We only have some Norwegian chains here.
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.
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Poland's gonna get them all!
Is Billa a franchise? If it is, I would open one in Poland, just to finish the collection.
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They suck.
Coops tend to be far better.
And they give eggs :)
Aldi left Denmark about a year ago. Might have been more.
Auchan is one of the shadiest there is. Still operating in Russia with no intention of leaving.
In Portugal I usually stick to Continente or Pingo Doce (both Portuguese capital owned, I think), and sometimes Lidl for some products that are only sold there.
Oh, and Normal (which I think is scandi) is really good to buy name brands.
Spar, that is basically Global now
And Billa is Rewe, including: Penny, Nahkauf, Adeg, BIPA, Toom, DER, ...
Some patterns jump out:
- None of them have presence in Norway.
- They all skip Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, and North Macedonia.
- But some are in Croatia.
Curious, why?
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.
Sounds like our situation here in Sweden (ICA, coop, Axfood).
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Mercadona ftw!
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.
Not only that but a lot of products (food especially, except meat) are really bad (both in Portugal and in Spain).
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are there any supermarkets in Europe that are not European?
Well, Walmart tried
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Or perhaps use local shops instead of supermarkets...?
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?
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As an American, I love aldis
Love how Metro has Switzerland and Slovenia surrounded.
dont forget the different Nettos. looks like scandinavia is free of supermarkets.
Coop bought out Netto in Sweden, so it would be gray for that map too.
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