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The Russian Mere supermarket in Opwijk closes its doorways immediately after 3 months

The Opwijk department of the Russian grocery store Mere will close its doors in mid-Oct. Belgium himself announced it on Fb. The opening of the first Belgian department of the selling price-breaker was controversial.

Just a few months soon after the opening of Mere in Opwijk in Flemish Brabant, the branch is opened. “The store has proved insufficiently commercially viable,” the statement read. Uncomplicated Belgium sticks to the plan of opening ten suppliers in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and Leuven.

Photo: Kristof Vadino

The opening of the Russian grocery store on June 8 this year – with out vacations – was controversialdue to the fact he experienced entered the war concerning Russia and Ukraine. In the course of the opening week, a protest took put in front of the store. Permits for the shop experienced been utilized for extensive ahead of the war began, and Opwijk Mayor Inez De Coninck (N-VA) hence saw no rationale to end opening. Very simple also bought products from a inventory he had by now purchased right before the war.

Mere wants to make a title for by itself as the least expensive supermarket in our areas.

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