GERMANY – C-STORES
June 1st, 2010
BY ALAN OSBORN
By contrast, Germany has relatively few convenience stores on a per capita basis, largely because of German consumers' enthusiasm for buying food at a discount. "The discounters have a higher market share here than in other countries. Their share of the total retail food market is around 49%," said Mr Kai Falk, spokesman for the Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE), the German retail federation representing about 310,000 companies with around 2.7 million employees. The grip on the market held by the 'hard discount', retailers such as LIDL ...
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