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Yea, that seems totally bunk outside of double or single-digit store companies. Even the regional US chains like Publix or HEB or Fred Meyer are as large as man

Yea, that seems totally bunk outside of double or single-digit store companies. Even the regional US chains like Publix or HEB or Fred Meyer are as large as many EU chains outside of Tesco, which may as well be the Walmart of Europe. I'm just tired of so many articles whose whole premise is "the US isn't doing thing X that a smaller, denser, and massively older country has done." Yea, the US has issues and is responsible for a lot of its own problems, but it's also not the same as Germany or France or Spain on so many different levels. You can make the case that the US should actually be N different countries, but that's not really an option, so you deal with the world as it is.

morsch 4y ago
Even the regional US chains like Publix or HEB or Fred Meyer are as large as many EU chains outside of Tesco, which may as well be the Walmart of Europe. Tesco isn't the largest chain in Europe. Walmart is bigger than the large European chains, by a factor of (just?) about 5 to 10. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103223/leading-grocery-stores-in-europe-by-sales/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103223/leading-grocery-... https://payspacemagazine.com/retail/top-7-supermarket-chains-in-europe/ https://payspacemagazine.com/retail/top-7-supermarket-chains...
- noirbot 4y ago
  Ah fair. I mostly meant that in the sense that, Tesco is closer to Walmart's "we sell everything" offering. Your second link was talking about the largest grocer in Europe having 1300 stores across 8 countries, which is about the same size as Publix which only operates in 7 states and has 800 stores in Florida alone.
  - morsch 4y ago
    Schwarz group operates 1300 Kaufland stores. Kaufland is like a Walmart (as far as I understand), each store is huge and sells everything. They also operate around 10000 Lidl stores across 32 countries. Those are smaller and sell mostly groceries. I think Tesco exists in several sizes, from small urban stores to suburban super stores.

morsch 4y ago

Even the regional US chains like Publix or HEB or Fred Meyer are as large as many EU chains outside of Tesco, which may as well be the Walmart of Europe. Tesco isn't the largest chain in Europe. Walmart is bigger than the large European chains, by a factor of (just?) about 5 to 10. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103223/leading-grocery-stores-in-europe-by-sales/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103223/leading-grocery-... https://payspacemagazine.com/retail/top-7-supermarket-chains-in-europe/ https://payspacemagazine.com/retail/top-7-supermarket-chains...

noirbot 4y ago
Ah fair. I mostly meant that in the sense that, Tesco is closer to Walmart's "we sell everything" offering. Your second link was talking about the largest grocer in Europe having 1300 stores across 8 countries, which is about the same size as Publix which only operates in 7 states and has 800 stores in Florida alone.
- morsch 4y ago
  Schwarz group operates 1300 Kaufland stores. Kaufland is like a Walmart (as far as I understand), each store is huge and sells everything. They also operate around 10000 Lidl stores across 32 countries. Those are smaller and sell mostly groceries. I think Tesco exists in several sizes, from small urban stores to suburban super stores.