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Discount Retail Chain Aldi US expands its Curbside Grocery Pickup service to more states after having piloted it in select stores since 2017. By the end of July, the e-commerce option will be available at 600 stores in 35 states, a welcome announcement for those spending less time in stores during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The full selection of Aldi products are available for pickup — powered by Instacart — by shopping at web and/or app. Customers can select their pickup time and location at checkout. Designated parking spots are clearly marked when they arrive at the store, and an employee will load groceries into their car. Click on image:

Discount Retail Chain owner Schwarz Group - owning Lidl, Kaufland as well as Schwarz Production and recycling firm GreenCycle/PreZero - has signed the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) agreement. The conglomerate with 430.000 employees in more than 30 countries signed the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact. Click on image:

US Discount Retail Chain Dollar General's same-store sales surged by 21.7% during the quarter and net sales were up 27.6%, far outpacing both its rival dollar store chains and grocery and big-box leaders such as Walmart and Target. While the chain benefited from an industry-wide trend for shoppers flocking to stores to stockpile on items during March and early April, analysts say it was able to be able to grow at a faster pace than its rivals because of the location of the majority of its stores. The stores which are mostly situated in rural or suburban areas are underserved by other operators. The majority of Dollar General's 16,500 stores are located in small towns or close to neighborhoods. When the company started to expand in the early 2000s, its strategy was to go where Walmart wasn't, opening stores that were 40 miles from a Walmart. Click on image:

Lidl opens its 100th overall store. Click on image.

Polish Discount Retail Chain Biedronka (part of the Portuguese Jeronimo Martins) shortens payment terms to 21 instead of 30 days. From June 1 it will apply to over 60 leading Polish producers of fruit and vegetables, whose combined - not only with Biedronka - annual turnover in 2019 did not exceed $24 million. By introducing new payment rules for the fruit and vegetables category, Biedronka wants to improve the producers' cashflow and business relation by shortening payment deadlines to maintain smooth and stable production. Biedronka is one of the largest food distributors in Poland, in particular fresh fruit and vegetables and Polish discount marketleader. Only in 2019, it sold almost 120 million kgs of potatoes, 110 million kgs of tomatoes and almost 90 million kgs of apples in over 3,000 Polish discount outlets, the vast majority of which came from Polish producers. Click on image.

A new European Hard Discount Retail Chain is worth considering as a gap is being created, with most discounters moving to a more supermarket-like model. But a comeback of the hard discount brick and mortar model as it was 25 years ago with its limited assortment of private label products and a simple store design is unlikely. As scale and margin mix is missing with higher customer expectations. Nevertheless E-commerce could easily jump into this gap. That's why the very low-price promise from hard discount is expected to make a comeback, and this could be as early as 2020. Click on image.

As one of the first discount retailers worldwide, the ALDI SOUTH Group joined the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) “Call to Action in the garment industry” in May 2020. Click on image.

The Danish big cities remain the biggest challenge for Lidl, but the chain has had "one of the best financial years" in the country. Click on image.

Lidl Poland reduces the meat prices by more than 30% for its own butcher's Rzeznik private label brand assortment. Click on image.

Have a look at the hard discount retail chain OBA (part of ARAZ Group) with 400+ stores in Azerbaijan. Click on image.

The German chain concentrates in this province a third of its Andalusian supermarkets. Click on image.

Turkish Discount Retail Chain File (owned by hard discounter BIM) opened its 100th store in Turkey. This soft discount concept, based on present day Aldi and Lidl, is slowly expanding in Turkey. By diversifing the hard-discount BIM business model, it will remain a sustainable and dominant number 1 player in Turkey. Click on image.