France: Lidl buys 19 Auchan stores
- DRC Discount Retail Consulting GmbH
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Discount Retail Chain Lidl France buys 19 Auchan stores. The French Competition Authority has just validated Lidl's acquisition of 19 Auchan stores.
The German discounter had therefore positioned itself to buy the Auchan stores. To confirm this acquisition, it was necessary to wait for the validation of the transaction by the Competition Authority. It was indeed required to ensure that these store acquisitions did not reduce price competition and local consumer choice.
The French authorities considered that this operation "is not likely to harm competition".
Here is the list of the 19 stores that have been "Auchan Supermarché" so far and that will become Lidl. 8 of them also have an adjoining gas station.
Antibes - Palais Congrès (Alpes-Maritimes, 06)
Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes, 06), with a petrol station.
Bordeaux - Benauge (Gironde, 33), with a petrol station.
Bordeaux - Grand Parc (Gironde, 33)
Gradignan - Malartic (Gironde, 33)
Grabels (Hérault, 34), with a petrol station.
Saint Pierre des Corps (Indre-et-Loire, 37)
Voiron (Isère, 38), with a petrol station.
Grenoble - Perrot (Isère, 38)
Marquette-lez-Lille (Nord, 59)
Noyelles-lès-Vermelles (Pas-de-Calais, 62), with a petrol station.
Lyon - Duchère (Rhône, 69)
Lyon - United States (Rhône, 69)
Paris - Vaugirard (75)
Nemours (Seine-et-Marne, 77), with a service station.
Carrières-sur-Seine (Yvelines, 78)
Toulon - Traverse Arnaud (Var, 83), with a petrol station.
Saint-Raphaël (Var, 83), with a petrol station.
L'Isle-Adam (Val-d'Oise, 95)
1,600 Lidl stores in France
All these stores should therefore close for a while soon, while work is carried out so that they can change their name. But soon, if you live near one of these stores, you will have a brand new Lidl.
These 19 supermarkets represent a sales area of 33,760m² and will join the 1,600 other stores that the German hard-discounter already has in France. Of these points of sale, nine had been taken over by Auchan from the Casino group in 2024, and ten belong to its historic park.
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