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Lidl’s got their fucking ground covered. They are not even just in Europe. They’re a major brand even in the USA. Same with Aldi. These two cheap discounters are not messing around.
Small hint: it should be Aldi Süd. Not Sud.
Sud is disgusting (basically meat juice) while Süd is a „direction“.
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
They probably do dance-offs.
They probably couldn’t care less about that sort of rivalry lol. They just go there to earn money. If anything I imagine they spend their breaks together.
Maybe they kiss
Yeah and maybe it leads to more intimate stuff. 🫦
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Looks so nice tbh. Aldis in Germany (not Aldi Süd, I have Aldi Nord which is different and separate) are ugly as hell lol. I hate shopping at Aldi in Germany.
Huh, Süd was always my favorite
I did visit a Nord once and it was surprisingly unpleasant
Yes. Süd actually puts money in its stores. Nord stores are stuck in the 1960s with broken white floor tiles etc.
Metro is B2B-only in Belgium, their B2C stores (Makro) no longer exist.
Think they’re B2B in Germany as well.
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.
Yeah, you need a VAT number.
It used to be like that in Makro as well, but people basically would use the data of some self-employed uncle to get cards for the entire family, so they dropped the VAT-restriction (but card was still mandatory)
Think they’re B2B in Germany as well.
You are correct
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.
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.
Isn’t it the same for Metro?
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.
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.
It’s not really a benefit though, club card gets the normal price and without you pay extra
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It’s easy for me. It’s part of the reason I only shop at Aldi
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I really hope they continue not to.
Aldi Süd 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.
They suck.
Coops tend to be far better.
And they give eggs :)
Poland’s gonna get them all!
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.
Aldi is really successful in the US now https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vT5-cV4oMY8&t=19s&pp=ygUIV3NqIGFsZGk%3D
Norway has SPAR, right?
We do, but in an odd way. One of the Norwegian chains use Spar as a brand for some of their stores.
Interesting. Where can I read more about this? Searching for SPAR and Norway seems to suggest that it’s just a regular part of SPAR.
Norgesgruppen lista SPAR as one of their brands/concepts. Unfortunately, their Norwegian / English toggle doesn’t work, but this is the Norwegian version: https://www.norgesgruppen.no/om-oss/om-oss-hjem/
Interesting. I guess they just license the brand in that case.
Don’t worry about the Norwegian, it’s mutually intelligible with Swedish
Yeah, your nick gives you away, it I didn’t think about that when writing that 😁
Tesco can fuck off though. Price increases during the pandemic and the profits when up way more than that, indicating greed.
They also force you to have a club card otherwise pretty much every item in the store costs more money.
Edit: Also, why isn’t Asda on this list? It’s owned by a couple of brothers from the UK now. Not that it’s any better than Tesco.
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Well, Walmart tried
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?
A local shop for local people
They probably mean some local chain or small independent store. Usually more expensive and have fewer items though.
But like - examples? Because I don’t think this is a thing at all in the UK for instance.
Yep, the small town butcher, bakery, etc.
Where we used to live, I could walk into town and buy local meat, organic veg and a warm fresh loaf of bread and it wasn’t that much more expensive than the (3!) supermarkets in town.
Considering I didn’t need fuel, then maybe it’s cost neutral.
The main difference? Well, much better quality food and the lives of those families…
It’s really just down to our choice to drive the price (read: quality / nutrition) down to the lowest possible… or not.
Just sayin’…
So not really a store, but a specialist shop like e.g. a butchers? How is that going to replace a supermarket? I don’t think I’ve seen one of those really ever tbqh, not even in rural small towns I lived in across England like Guildford.
Supermarkets put most of them out of business.
Because the local shop doesn’t sell pork shoulder for £3.79/KG
I shop at Aldi and Lidl too but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking these are good alternatives. These companies are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
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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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