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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.
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.
I thought it was owned by Walmart tbh, but apparently they sold most of it. They still retain 10% shares though.
Yeah it was sold a few years ago to a couple of brothers who made their money in petrol forecourts.
Interesting it’s people like this I really don’t understand. Like if I had a fraction of the money to be able to buy Asda, I’m going to retire and enjoy my hobbies. I don’t get how you would want to make more money.
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.
Auchan left Italy years ago
Spar, that is basically Global now
And Billa is Rewe, including: Penny, Nahkauf, Adeg, BIPA, Toom, DER, …
They suck.
Coops tend to be far better.
And they give eggs :)
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.
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 á LA “only with our app”. Boycotting this trend seems to be hard 😔
It’s easy for me. It’s part of the reason I only shop at Aldi
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
Auchan still operates in russia. https://leave-russia.org/auchan
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?
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
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).
Metro is B2B-only in Belgium, their B2C stores (Makro) no longer exist.
Think they’re B2B in Germany as well.
Think they’re B2B in Germany as well.
You are correct
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)
My whole childhood was spent at the Makro, sad that it’s gone
Same in France
As an American, I love aldis
None of these chains are present in Norway. Lidl tried years ago and gave up. We only have some Norwegian chains here.
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.
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
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“.
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.
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 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. 🫦
They probably do dance-offs.
Sued
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It is the official German way to write ü in situations where only the basic 26 letters are available. Same with ä as ae and ö as oe.
I was making a joke about „sued“ as in verklagt. But I failed so fml.
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are there any supermarkets in Europe that are not European?
Apparently Morrisons in the UK is American
Not sure where you heard that, it’s headquartered in the UK, founded by a man from Yorkshire, and the current CEO is French.
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
Spar is Dutch. I live close to the border and there used to be a Spar store but it is a Jumbo store now, also Dutch. And then of course there is Albert Hein. So it seems like Dutch people can handle the competition pretty well actually.
In the UK we now have Tesco and Asda saying they will price match a few Aldi products. Few others might do this occasionally as well.
Aldi responded with saying they price match Aldi on all their products.
Well, Walmart tried
