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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

are there any supermarkets in Europe that are not European?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apparently Morrisons in the UK is American

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure where you heard that, it's headquartered in the UK, founded by a man from Yorkshire, and the current CEO is French.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Morrisons is owned by Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CD&R), an American private equity firm.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

TIL. You'd think Wikipedia would mention that! Unfortunate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Aldi price matching all of aldi's products? They're crazy

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Well, Walmart tried