To reinforce your point, from a Swedish perspective. I've never seen or heard of Carrefour before. We used to have Spar[1] but those got replaced by other chain

To reinforce your point, from a Swedish perspective. I've never seen or heard of Carrefour before. We used to have Spar[1] but those got replaced by other chains. Lidl started showing up maybe 15 years ago and is everywhere by now. I don't think any town/city with more than 20k people is missing a Lidl. Tesco I've only seen in the UK. [1]: Spara means "to save" in Swedish, so I've always thought that Spar was from here. TIL it's not.