Your search notes American companies doing that. It also notes it being done in big cities like Chicago. There is zero I see about euro grocers buying up prop

Your search notes American companies doing that. It also notes it being done in big cities like Chicago. There is zero I see about euro grocers buying up property in rural areas. So unless you can post a source of your claim - euro grocer pissing away millions by devaluing rural properties, the search link you posted so far quite literally proved you wrong.