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Aldi has left Denmark so the map is a bit outdated.
Norwegians don’t shop food.
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.
E: I’ve been told elsewhere that Morrisons was taken over by a US equity firm.
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’ve come to realize that a lot of these billionaires have mental illness, with some form of OCD/ Hoarding Syndrome. If someone hoarded cats, or newspapers, or junk cars, or any other single item the way these people hoard money when they already have more than they or all of their descendants could ever use, everyone would recognize them as having a mental illness.
But somehow, being so driven to accumulate MORE money, and to even conspire with other financial hoarders to take over entire nations to loot their economies, is considered an accepted aspect of capitalism.
Yes it truly baffles me how we have fostered this society.
I was listening to Gary from Gary’s Economics on the Diary of a CEO and he was tearing into the hosts on that show. What struck me is that Daniel, the host, seemed to have this simplistic view that if you want more money become an entrepreneur. Kind of glossing over the fact most people don’t want that, they want to earn enough money doing regular work. Then I don’t think he has even considered what the world would look like with Doctors, Trash Collectors, etc if everybody becomes an entrepreneur.
Then the owner will of the show Stephen shared a story about his mate who got rich and left the UK cause of the taxes. And again I can’t comprehend getting rich in a country and then leaving cause they want me to pay my fair share. I am happy to pay tax for the greater good, I just wish everybody paid their fair share.
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.
Maxima needs to expand to more countries, honestly. I visit Lithuania regularly and I love that store.
we call it mahima here since it’s usually frequented by occupants and staffed by people who can’t speak the local language. Despite that it has good prices and one of the best kitchens of any big market. Just annoying to shop with some babushkas who act like their kgb officer husband is still alive.
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 :)
where Spar?
Auchan still operates in russia. https://leave-russia.org/auchan
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
Yeah sure…until they also get an app/card. I wonder why they didn’t.
I really hope they continue not to.
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 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.
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
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).
As an American, I love aldis
