Around 250 modern retail stores were counted by ZF in Bucharest, of which 23 hypermarkets. Of these, three opened this autumn – Cora Alexandriei, Auchan City Giulesti and Kaufland Mihai Bravu.
The supermarket chain with the biggest coverage is Mega Image, with almost 150 stores in Bucharest–95 under the Mega Image brand and 52 smaller-sized ones under the Shop&Go format.
Profi also has good coverage, with 22 stores, while Carrefour has 8 hypermarkets in Bucharest, 11 Carrefour Market supermarkets and 11 Carrefour Express convenience stores, according to data on the company’s website.
Lidl has reached 11 stores in Bucharest in less than two years, while Billa supermarket chain, one of the first players in modern retail to enter the Romanian market (in 1999) has nine stores in Bucharest.
The other modern retail players do not have more than 5 stores each in Bucharest.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)