Retail

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the Lithuania Tribune, DELFI

The German retailer Lidl opened 15 stores across Lithuania last week. While queues of shoppers on the opening day suggested that the market was starved for budget retailers, Lidl is secretive about its expansion plans in the country.

Jekaterina Smirnova, Euromonitor

One of the most important and anticipated events in the retail market in Lithuania is the opening of Lidl’s first chain of stores - some expect that Lidl will change the grocery retailing landscape in Lithuania completely but is Lidl really such a threat to the leading grocery retailers in Lithuania...

the Lithuania Tribune

Lidl, which is due to open a raft of stores across Lithuania in the coming months, has signed up a number of major Lithuanian food companies to supply its outlets, indicating it may open as early as the beginning of June.

the Lithuania Tribune, Lzinios.lt

Four supermarket chains currently control almost half of the retail market in Lithuania. It took them about a decade from the mid-1990s to push out small businesses and acquire a power that politicians and economists say is unhealthy for genuine competition.

Rory Kelleher, the Lithuania Tribune

The first long overdue signs of consumer empowerment in Lithuania provoked by rapidly rising prices of basic goods has been met by incredible accusations of Russian conspiracies, despite the evidence clearly showing that prices have skyrocketed in the wake of the introduction of the euro.

the Lithuania Tribune

Retail sales in Lithuania, excluding the automobile sector and food and beverages, rose 6.8% year to €1.315 billion in February with the motor industry and food and beverage industry experiencing strong growth.