It is the second time that the Romanians from La Cocoş go to the space previously occupied by Real and then by ReMarkt, after the one in Arad.♦ For Real, this store was the second in the city, inaugurated following an investment of 22 million euros in 2008, two years after the first hypermarket in the town.December 4, 2008 is the date when the Real hypermarket in the Oradea Diocese area opened its doors. It was the second unit in the city and the 18th of the Germans in Romania. The German chain then announced that it had invested 22 million euros in this space. At that time, the Romanian retailer La Cocoş did not even exist. Not even at the plan level. It appeared only in 2014, some time after Real gave up its operations in Central and Eastern Europe, including Romania. You might also be interested: Today, La Cocoş, which recently has the German Schwarz group, the owner of Lidl and Kaufland, as its shareholder, has seven hyperdiscount units and has announced an eighth, in Oradea. And not anywhere, but in the space previously occupied by Real. In the years that have passed since Real’s exit from Romania, this space has also gone through a series of transformations.
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