The Dutch-Belgian-held retailer has inaugurated 17 new stores this year (January-March), 11 of which Mega Image and six Shop&Go, nine of them in Bucharest and Ilfov, three in Cluj, two in Timis, and one in Brasov, Prahova and Dambovita each.
Mega Image should therefore expand by 24 stores in the first five months of this year, slower than in 2019, but similar to the years before that, when it inaugurated 50 to 60 stores. The retailer opened almost 90 stores in 2019, it has previously said.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the company had announced plans to continue at the same rate as in 2019, with 95 new stores – 46 Mega Image supermarkets and 49 Shop&Go convenience stores.
“At these trying times for the economy, it is important to continue investment, to get involved and support it through new jobs. Now more than ever we are going (…) closer to homes, with our convenience store formats. We encourage all our customers to choose locally-sourced products (…),” says Mircea Moga, CEO of Mega Image.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)