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Crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with big american cloud compute.

• joaodlf 6mo ago
  Not necessarily trading blows, but LIDL is huge in all sorts of figures. From revenue to employment numbers.
• retired 6mo ago
  LIDL sells everything you need in your life in the middle aisle. Even cloud solutions.
  • bodelecta 6mo ago
    It's going to be hard getting that angle grinder I've never needed when there's a line of CTO's blocking the aisle
    • nottorp 6mo ago
      That's the charm of Lidl. You go in to get milk bread and meat and come out with a tool that you don't need but it's nice to have.
• burner-phone73 6mo ago
  The Schwarz Gruppe (owner of Lidl) makes about as much as Meta and Microsoft. So, yes, they're are big player.
• browningstreet 6mo ago
  Don't you mean that it's crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with a bookseller?
• myroon5 6mo ago
  But can a wool shoe company? https://ir.allbirds.com/news-releases/news-release-details/allbirds-inc-executes-50m-convertible-financing-facility https://ir.allbirds.com/news-releases/news-release-details/a...
• ivan_gammel 6mo ago
  Lidl doesn‘t do that. It is just a grocery discounter, one company of the many in that corporate structure, and one of the users of that cloud.
• Barrin92 6mo ago
  the parent company (Schwarz Group) has over half a million employees and makes something like 200 billion in revenue per year, I think calling it a discount grocer is underselling it a bit lol.
  • hermanzegerman 6mo ago
    It's their main business
• rwmj 6mo ago
  Getting a large customer is a great win for them, but setting up a cloud service isn't that hard? The most complicated bit would have been financing.