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> On 26. Jun 2018, at 13:19, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What you just described there sounds
> very much like my local Aldi, which most people here think of as a
> supermarket, not a discounter.
indeed Aldi is the first (at least in Europe) to operate this way. It is not
unlikely the discount store description in wikipedia was influenced by Germans
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_store
and names Aldi and Lidl as examples:
“
A discount store or discount shop is a retail shop which sells products at
prices that are lower than the typical market price.
A "full-line discount store/shop" or "mass merchandiser", such as Aldi or Lidl,
may offer a wide assortment of goods with a focus on price rather than service,
display or wide choice within lines. Meanwhile, a "speciality", "single line"
or "category killer" discount store/shop, such as Toys "R" Us or Staples, may
specialise in specific merchandise lines, relying on bulk purchase and
efficient distribution to keep down costs.[1]
“
cheers,
Martin
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