Last August, the news of the purchase of 235 Grupo DIA stores by Alcampo, plus a logistics center located in Valladolid, was made public. Following the planned plans to transfer the stores in the middle of the recently launched year, DAY has begun to liquidate stock of dozens of businesses with big discountsat the moment mainly in Madrid.
As has been advanced Five daysnumerous stores in La Plaza de DIA are lining their windows with posters of ‘Settlement by transfer‘ since the end of December, offering price reductions on its shelves for different products from its catalog until stocks last.
The objective is none other than to get rid of the stocks still available in the stores that are part of the transfer operation signed with Alcampo last summer. Presumably this same liquidation movement of stock with discounts it will spread in the rest of the La Plaza stores acquired by the subsidiary chain of the French group Auchan.
In addition to Madrid, the more than 200 La Plaza stores that will join Alcampo’s properties are located in Aragón, Asturias, Castilla y León, Galicia, Cantabria, Navarra and the Basque Country. The President and CEO of Auchan Retail, Yves-Claudestressed that with this operation they seek to strengthen their presence in Spain by accelerating their growth to position themselves as leaders in our country.
Despite already liquidating his stockmissing by move the templates of workers from these La Plaza stores, a movement that the company has reported must wait for the final approval of the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC).
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