Europe doesn't have a Walmart?

I need to get out of the country more.

Walmart WAS in Germany.

Wal-Mart's investments outside North America have had mixed results: its operations in South America and China are highly successful, while it was forced to pull out of Germany when its venture there was unsuccessful.

In July 2006, Wal-Mart announced its withdrawal from Germany due to sustained losses in a highly competitive market. The stores were sold to the German company Metro during Wal-Mart's fiscal third quarter.

Wal-Mart also had to face fierce competition in some foreign markets. For example, in Germany it had captured just 2% of German food market following its entry into the market in 1997 and remained "a secondary player" behind Aldi with a 19% share. In July 2006, Wal-Mart announced its withdrawal from Germany. Its stores were sold to German company Metro. Wal-Mart continues to do well in the UK, and its ASDA subsidiary is the second largest chain after Tesco.

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I wonder this as well, I haven't ever heard of Aldi. And Lidl is german crap.

Aldi is german too. Aldi and Lidl are 2 big and important discount supermarket chains in Germany. Most Germans especially those with lower income buy at Aldi.

Here is the website with the links to the national websites: http://www.aldi.com/

For more information you can look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
There is also something explained about things like "they charged you 25 cents for a cart and a dollar for a bag". These are things that are common in Germany and in other european countries.

The name Aldi is short for "ALbrecht DIscount". Albrecht is the name of the 2 german brother who founded Aldi. They are both in the list of the 100 wealthiest people(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_billionaires).

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My familie buys at Lidl and Aldi. For the cheap products i prefer Aldi. And Lidl has more "good" products than Aldi. They have Coca Cola and other known brands and they are a little bit cheaper than in other stores(in Germany, I don't know if Lidl in other countries has Coca Cola and other better products too).

Oh, and in Germany we have no bagboys or other things like persons who carry your heave bag to the car. Even the 80 year old ladies want to carry their stuff without help.

I knew this topic wouldn't survive without a reference to Wal-mart, even though we're talking Europe.

Whatevs. I prefer Costco.

I went to Aldi again yesterday and it turns out they don't accept credit cards. You know those stickers they put near the checkout that show you all the cards they accept? I looked at that and it showed all these bizarre cards that I'd never heard of before. Pizazz, Maestro (this one ruled because it looked exactly like Mastercard), and a whole lot more that were imitations of major cards. Man, what a place.

Also another thing that I noticed that I really liked was that there were chairs at the checkout. All the cashiers were sitting down. There are also only like 2 people working at the store at any time.

ahahaha yes this is all true.  it could be a busy saturday afternoon or whenever the fuck people shop and there will be ONE CASHIER, ONE STOCKER and you are just like why the fuck don't they hire more people (cupt over head....).  and the cashier is always slow as fuck and you'd think they'd be less lazy since they get to sit down!

also i never noticed that bit about the credit cards.  why would they do that?  i can't see how it would benefit them to make people think they can pay with their cards when really they can't, if the people have no cash on them.