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Is poland collecting supermarket chains like pokemon cards?
Spar? How widespread are those
Massive in UK / Ireland too!
Spar is very widespread in Europe, however it is a network of differently owned companies and not one big companies like these others
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.
Certainly were present in Russia before sanctions.
Very widespread in Austria, second chain that comes to my mind after Billa.
No Aldi in Denmark
Map is not amazing
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".
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According to Wikipedia, they were closed in 2023.
Aldi lukkede i Danmark i 2023.
Oooh, so I was whooshed, that comment makes a lot more sense then.
This is outdated. Tesco moved out of Poland a few years ago.
What about COOP?
Italy and Swiss afaik
At least the NL as well, I was surprised to see them in Swiss!
Lidl will be soon in Bosnia
Didn't know there were TESCOs outside of the UK, TIL.
There is no tesco in poland anymore
isn't Metro B2B ?
It used to be like that in the past in my country, now it's B2C too
In the U.S., Aldi > Lidl, for me.
In the Netherlands, lidl is a lot better than Aldi.
Which European supermarkets have non-European branches?
I remember seeing Carrefour in Buenos Aires ten years ago.
Delhaize has it's Food Lion branch in the US. Delhaize is a Belgian chain.
Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V., commonly known as Ahold Delhaize, is a Dutch-Belgian multinational retail and wholesale holding company.
And one not shown in this map though…
Aldi is present on many continents
Carrefour used to exist in China (not sure about now)
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.
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.
Aldi has a presence in Australia in major cities, they are generally seen as an alternative to the major duopoly of Coles and Woolworths.
I know Tesco experimented with USA locations but IDK if it lasted.
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.
I've definitely seen Aldi in the Czech Republic
Poland has 8 of them.
7, tesco is no more
Carrefour has branches in israel
I never saw a Metro in spain
~~Same in the Netherlands~~
Edit: I just looked it up and apparently Makro is owned by Metro. Plenty of Makro's in the Netherlands.
auchan & metro? still?
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/
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.
Roubles talk.