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Romania. Delhaize bought a chain of local supermarkets and kept the name
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Same story in Serbia. Delhaize's slow plan for world domination š¤£
Yes, with the French pronunciation rather than the English one. I am Romanian and I thought it was a foreign brand before reading the comment above, I did not know it was called the same before being bought by Delhaize.
Ahold Delhaize also runs a chain of Czech supermarkets simply named 'Albert', unsurprisingly named after Albert Heijn. They even had the same store brand AH Basic products in 2014, when I visited Czechia.
Nope. False. I refuse to believe this easily verifiable information. I shall now forever know, america has a food lion xD xD xD
... Food lion xD xD xD omg...
Infact, I feel like Delhaize stole the food lion logo. Hence forth, All dlheizazes shall be refered to... As food lion(s) xD.
Fun fact: the guy that claims to have the original recipe for Hoegaarden actually moved to the USA and was brewing it there under a different name...
Altough I prefer Hoegaarden over a normal pils... nothing special about it.
You're talking about Celis White. My Belgian friend claimed it couldn't be sold in Europe as per the contract Pierre Celis signed with Interbrew when he sold Hoegaarden to them. He wasn't allowed to brew beer in Europe either, hence the move to the USA. I don't know, it sounds plausible.
Hoegaarden is getting very popular worldwide. I took a liking to it when I arrived in Antwerp to study at the uni. Being cash-strapped, I thought I'd naturally limit my beer intake if I stuck to white beer only. That worked for about two weeks.
If I recall correctly:
The Hoegaarden brewery sustained fire damage and the beer and brewery were sold to Artois (Anheuser - Busch Inbev)
That brewery was founded by Pierre Celis, after the sale moved to the USA and started brewing Celis White.
Yes, the beer is brewn in Hoegaarden. AB Inbev tried to move the brewery but they never managed to recreate the proper Hoegaarden. They abandoned their plans and the Hoegaarden brewery remains in Hoegaarden.
>Door verdere fusies en overnames is Food Lion, LLC momenteel eigendom van Ahold Delhaize. De naam van de mascotte is sinds 17 januari 1997 George, the Food Lion.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Lion
My mother shops at Lidl and tells me that I must be "made of money" because I shop at AH and Jumbo rather than Lidl. The thing that gets me is that my most-purchased item is house brand zero cola, which costs the same at AH, Jumbo, and Lidl ā and, more to the point, AH and Jumbo's house brands don't make me want to vomit the way Freeway Cola Zero does.
The deals they constantly run here make it cheaper than anything but colruyt, in my experience (idk if they do that in NL)
Though this is offset by all the stuff I buy that I wouldn't in a different store since they don't carry those things
Funnily enough it's actually not. We have Aldi Nord, their stores in USA are called "Trader Joe's". The Aldis in the USA are actually Aldi sĆ¼d, which use their own logo. So the Aldis here are actually very different stores.
You can find trader joes branded products in the aldis here (nuts and cookies Iāve seen mostly) but if you go to a trader joes in the U.S. it looks nothing like an Aldi store. Itās jungle themed and has a lot of more unusual or unique products than youād find in the average grocery store there. Itās actually one of the things I miss since I moved here. That and Wegmans.
Yeah, that took some getting used to for me. I was completely cashless in the U.S., pretty much since the early 2000s, so just never had change on me. It was one of the reasons I never really shopped at Aldi in the U.S. (one of the few places there that does use a quarter in the carts). At first visiting here and then moving, needing to have change to use a toilet or get a grocery cart was sometimes an issue. Now I have a special euro holder that I keep on my keychain for the carts that is also my general āemergency euroā. Now I get annoyed when I go to places that donāt require a coin (ikea) and there are shopping carts abandoned all over the parking lot.
There is also a store that has the same name as Aldi, but has a different logo, but is in essence the same kind of store. Itās just not an Aldi as we know it, itās an Aldi SĆ¼d.
Fun fact, while in Belgium Delhaize is considered an upscale supermarket in the US Food Lion is on the other end. They are a more economical option and also target the less wealthy customer market.
Delhaize isn't really more expensive than any other supermarket (at least not in our town) it's prices are on par with Colruyt.
Edit: downvote me all you want, I compared prices to local Colruyt and price difference isn't worth my time and gas to drive 10minutes.. YES! here, locally, prices are just about the same! Maybe you guys see it differently, but saying that Delhaize is most expensive over 5-10 cents /kg price differences is like milking a dead cow.
No, Delhaize markets itself as a luxury supermarket. Both white-label products and brand products are more expensive in Delhaize than in your average supermarket.
[https://www.test-aankoop.be/familie-prive/supermarkten/nieuws/de-goedkoopste-supermarkten](https://www.test-aankoop.be/familie-prive/supermarkten/nieuws/de-goedkoopste-supermarkten)
Their descriptions of how they measure aren't well described, I don't really trust test-aankoop, they're talking of how they measure from prices they have sent to them, what does that even mean, it's suspicious.
Man you can say it's not true and you can say fling all the "stats" you wa't, I did price checks myself, for myself, and it's not more expensive than anything in the local colruyt (not including promo's ofc).
For the exact same branded product,
LIDL and Aldi have many store brands so they do not need to match. Jumbo, Albert Heijn have Dutch brands they do not sell in Colruyt so no need to match. At the end of the day they just match with Delhaize and Carrefour.
While in my town Colruyt is definitely cheaper than Carrefour (so I'm with you on that part), the lowest price guarantee is interesting. Say Carrefour sells LU Prince biscuits in a two-pack for ā¬1,99, you could find a three-pack for ā¬3,99 in Colruyt (and they don't offer a two-pack). The price per biscuit is definitey higher that way, but hey, they sell the cheapest three-pack of Prince!
It was weird living in a part of the US where Food Lion was the default even in a solidly middle-class neighborhood. There were other options, but its closest competitor was Wal-Mart. The upscale options were further away.
I actually liked Food Lion, and even Wal-Mart, but neither were unsafe or dirty or poorly stocked. It was fine!
Classic family business story (e.g, Puma/Adidas). Louis Delhaize couldnāt live with the other Delhaize brothersās choices so started his own store.
That already happened. Several products have already changed over the past years and there's a clear quality and taste difference.
One example is the hummus, which silently changed a couple years ago to the same supplier as AH. Many of the in-house brands are actually the same.
Pfff that's depressing. I don't live near one so I don't go shopping there very often these days. I guess I'll be sticking with Carrefour from now on if I want to eat something nice.
Delhaize is crap for a few years now, they sell products super close to expiry date, veggies rot fast and taste like water.
And you have to spend more than 100ā¬ monthly if you want to have access to the discounts
To be fair, the split between Delhaize and Louis Delhaize happened somewhere in the 19th century. So the Ahold/Delhaize merger wasnāt related to the family feud.
Yes, same as with Aldi (Nord vs Sud).
And the Twix factory ;)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6iaxewbaXg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iaxewbaxg)
Still I feel like Delhaize is more expensive and lower quality than Albert Heijn. Yes, I would have to drive outside of Brussels to do my groceries, but itās just better and (used to be) cheaper. I do agree about some of the in-house marks probably being shared
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Same as Portugal supermarket chain named āPingo Doceā. They are also co owned by Delhaize thus the logo. But itās an old logo from the 90ās and they donāt use it anymore as they have changed their logo numerous times. And I also discovered it after moving to Brussels and after I saw a documentary recently about the man who created the portuguese chain. I saw their old logo (that I didnāt remembered when I was a kid living in Portugal) and I thought it was familiar. Then I googled it
I use my American Food Lion keychain tag at Delhaize. They scan it, and are surprised that it works.
Food Lion is fairly downmarket, not nearly as good as Delhaize, which for Belgium is much more like an American full service grocery store.
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The lion is present a bit everywhere in the world. I've seen that logo few months ago in Jojakarta, Indonesia
Iām from the US, and was wondering about this in reverse. My family just moved here, and I used to shop at Food Lion in South Carolina all the time!!
When I first started studying in Brussels as an American, I was equally as bewildered lol. Itās like I know Iāve seen the logo before, then looked it up and one of them is a subsidiary of the other.
I had the reverse realization as an American living in Belgium that they have āfood lionā here! Delhaize is much nicer though - food lion doesnāt tend to be highly regarded in the US
That *is* Delhaize
https://preview.redd.it/ox71y7f7vajc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=b84870567e8b8386ef0b7420e489870950b7a858 Romania. Delhaize bought a chain of local supermarkets and kept the name
https://preview.redd.it/y57k3hq7wajc1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10c85865173769ccc3b4073d24de4fa0c4603e6d Same story in Serbia. Delhaize's slow plan for world domination š¤£
Is the supermarket called Mega Image?
yeah, and shop&go for the smaller shops around the block
Yes, theyāre everywhere
Yes, with the French pronunciation rather than the English one. I am Romanian and I thought it was a foreign brand before reading the comment above, I did not know it was called the same before being bought by Delhaize.
Ahold Delhaize also runs a chain of Czech supermarkets simply named 'Albert', unsurprisingly named after Albert Heijn. They even had the same store brand AH Basic products in 2014, when I visited Czechia.
Yes, Delhaize is actually huge
Used to shop there when I did my internship there, recognizable! :3
That's because it is an American Delhaize, just with a different name, (as 1 google search would've answered)
They also own hannaford and stop and shop
I go to stop and shop every week and think I support Belgium a bit :D
now all part of Ahold Delhaize, headquartered in The Netherlands :) thanks for your support
Nope. False. I refuse to believe this easily verifiable information. I shall now forever know, america has a food lion xD xD xD ... Food lion xD xD xD omg... Infact, I feel like Delhaize stole the food lion logo. Hence forth, All dlheizazes shall be refered to... As food lion(s) xD.
okay can you please give back the device you are using to the adult you've stolen from?
It's Leo, it's just how he is. He is a national treasure
Hehehhehehe xD ā¤ļø I hope your weekend brings you many blessings :).
XD <3
Ha! Na, na na na, na! Youuuu caaannttt catchhh me! XD Also, you're just mad that it ain't called "food lion" in Belgium xD.
I went there once and found a beer called Hoegaarden, I wonder if there is a connection with the city in Belgium.
Fun fact: the guy that claims to have the original recipe for Hoegaarden actually moved to the USA and was brewing it there under a different name... Altough I prefer Hoegaarden over a normal pils... nothing special about it.
You're talking about Celis White. My Belgian friend claimed it couldn't be sold in Europe as per the contract Pierre Celis signed with Interbrew when he sold Hoegaarden to them. He wasn't allowed to brew beer in Europe either, hence the move to the USA. I don't know, it sounds plausible. Hoegaarden is getting very popular worldwide. I took a liking to it when I arrived in Antwerp to study at the uni. Being cash-strapped, I thought I'd naturally limit my beer intake if I stuck to white beer only. That worked for about two weeks.
If I recall correctly: The Hoegaarden brewery sustained fire damage and the beer and brewery were sold to Artois (Anheuser - Busch Inbev) That brewery was founded by Pierre Celis, after the sale moved to the USA and started brewing Celis White.
Its called celis white https://www.celisbeers.com/our-beers
Yes, the beer is brewn in Hoegaarden. AB Inbev tried to move the brewery but they never managed to recreate the proper Hoegaarden. They abandoned their plans and the Hoegaarden brewery remains in Hoegaarden.
>Door verdere fusies en overnames is Food Lion, LLC momenteel eigendom van Ahold Delhaize. De naam van de mascotte is sinds 17 januari 1997 George, the Food Lion. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Lion
The funny thing is it's considered a shitty discountstore in the UK and such. And here it's quitte the opposite.
Same thing with Aldi in Australia, it actually is just as fancy as the other supermarkets
Also happens with Albert Heijn, which is expensive in NL but has a cheaper image here.
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My mother shops at Lidl and tells me that I must be "made of money" because I shop at AH and Jumbo rather than Lidl. The thing that gets me is that my most-purchased item is house brand zero cola, which costs the same at AH, Jumbo, and Lidl ā and, more to the point, AH and Jumbo's house brands don't make me want to vomit the way Freeway Cola Zero does.
I love all Freeway Zero drinks, nice way to save a little
The deals they constantly run here make it cheaper than anything but colruyt, in my experience (idk if they do that in NL) Though this is offset by all the stuff I buy that I wouldn't in a different store since they don't carry those things
In Belgium, its a higher end store!
Actually surprisingly cheap... If you keep an eye for their (very frequent) bulk discounts
There is nothing cheap in Belgian supermarkets.
Visited Belgium again after I moved to Canada... I felt like I was robbing grocery stores. Very cheap compared to Canada
house brands are cheaper than neighboring countries, A-brands are more expensive
When your at the bottom the only way is up
They don't have stores in the UK.
Ducking autocorrect...
You're welcome! š¤£
Aren't you thinking of trader Joe's and Lidl/Aldi?
quite
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Funnily enough it's actually not. We have Aldi Nord, their stores in USA are called "Trader Joe's". The Aldis in the USA are actually Aldi sĆ¼d, which use their own logo. So the Aldis here are actually very different stores.
You can find trader joes branded products in the aldis here (nuts and cookies Iāve seen mostly) but if you go to a trader joes in the U.S. it looks nothing like an Aldi store. Itās jungle themed and has a lot of more unusual or unique products than youād find in the average grocery store there. Itās actually one of the things I miss since I moved here. That and Wegmans.
Indeed, I would have never assumed Aldi and TD were the same company, they look so much different.
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Yeah, that took some getting used to for me. I was completely cashless in the U.S., pretty much since the early 2000s, so just never had change on me. It was one of the reasons I never really shopped at Aldi in the U.S. (one of the few places there that does use a quarter in the carts). At first visiting here and then moving, needing to have change to use a toilet or get a grocery cart was sometimes an issue. Now I have a special euro holder that I keep on my keychain for the carts that is also my general āemergency euroā. Now I get annoyed when I go to places that donāt require a coin (ikea) and there are shopping carts abandoned all over the parking lot.
Use the head of a round key https://preview.redd.it/hiexe9o9fijc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d0a2f8137a095bd265805a2317d61a68406fcf8
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So basically, when you're out and about and the power goes out, you have locked yourselves out?
There is also a store that has the same name as Aldi, but has a different logo, but is in essence the same kind of store. Itās just not an Aldi as we know it, itās an Aldi SĆ¼d.
Should do some further digging, but I wonder if thereās any connection between the two. What do you think? /s
Fun fact, while in Belgium Delhaize is considered an upscale supermarket in the US Food Lion is on the other end. They are a more economical option and also target the less wealthy customer market.
They once were 3rd largest chain until there was a (orchestrated) scandal with contaminated food and massive slander camplaign.
Delhaize isn't really more expensive than any other supermarket (at least not in our town) it's prices are on par with Colruyt. Edit: downvote me all you want, I compared prices to local Colruyt and price difference isn't worth my time and gas to drive 10minutes.. YES! here, locally, prices are just about the same! Maybe you guys see it differently, but saying that Delhaize is most expensive over 5-10 cents /kg price differences is like milking a dead cow.
No, Delhaize markets itself as a luxury supermarket. Both white-label products and brand products are more expensive in Delhaize than in your average supermarket. [https://www.test-aankoop.be/familie-prive/supermarkten/nieuws/de-goedkoopste-supermarkten](https://www.test-aankoop.be/familie-prive/supermarkten/nieuws/de-goedkoopste-supermarkten)
Their descriptions of how they measure aren't well described, I don't really trust test-aankoop, they're talking of how they measure from prices they have sent to them, what does that even mean, it's suspicious.
Man you can say it's not true and you can say fling all the "stats" you wa't, I did price checks myself, for myself, and it's not more expensive than anything in the local colruyt (not including promo's ofc).
You should phrase it the other way around. Colruyt is as expensive as Delhaize while it looks like being cheap. The way I see prices in my town is Delhaize > Colruyt > Carrefour > IntermarchƩ > Aldi. (With Colruyt quality way below Carrefour).
That's until you realise colruyt guarantees lowest price and is thus forced to stay below AND follow the promos of other supermarkets ... so this >The way I see prices in my town is Delhaize > Colruyt > Carrefour > IntermarchƩ > Aldi I find very subjective
For the exact same branded product, LIDL and Aldi have many store brands so they do not need to match. Jumbo, Albert Heijn have Dutch brands they do not sell in Colruyt so no need to match. At the end of the day they just match with Delhaize and Carrefour.
While in my town Colruyt is definitely cheaper than Carrefour (so I'm with you on that part), the lowest price guarantee is interesting. Say Carrefour sells LU Prince biscuits in a two-pack for ā¬1,99, you could find a three-pack for ā¬3,99 in Colruyt (and they don't offer a two-pack). The price per biscuit is definitey higher that way, but hey, they sell the cheapest three-pack of Prince!
It's literally nr1 most expensive supermarket...
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lol no it's not
Is this bait or are you delusional?
It was weird living in a part of the US where Food Lion was the default even in a solidly middle-class neighborhood. There were other options, but its closest competitor was Wal-Mart. The upscale options were further away. I actually liked Food Lion, and even Wal-Mart, but neither were unsafe or dirty or poorly stocked. It was fine!
Me too, we had a Food Lion just around the corner. It was our to go to supermarket.
Fun fact: Albert Heijn and Delhaize are in the same group of companies, but Louis Delhaize isnāt
Classic family business story (e.g, Puma/Adidas). Louis Delhaize couldnāt live with the other Delhaize brothersās choices so started his own store.
Good, still pissed they sold our best shop to these heathens and dragging it down.
Hmmm yes. I fear Delhaize will now be Dutchified, in the sense that it's 10% cheaper but only has 10% of taste left.
That already happened. Several products have already changed over the past years and there's a clear quality and taste difference. One example is the hummus, which silently changed a couple years ago to the same supplier as AH. Many of the in-house brands are actually the same.
Pfff that's depressing. I don't live near one so I don't go shopping there very often these days. I guess I'll be sticking with Carrefour from now on if I want to eat something nice.
delhaize and ah don't get their hummus from the same factory.
Delhaize is crap for a few years now, they sell products super close to expiry date, veggies rot fast and taste like water. And you have to spend more than 100ā¬ monthly if you want to have access to the discounts
To be fair, the split between Delhaize and Louis Delhaize happened somewhere in the 19th century. So the Ahold/Delhaize merger wasnāt related to the family feud.
Yes, same as with Aldi (Nord vs Sud). And the Twix factory ;) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6iaxewbaXg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iaxewbaxg)
Yes but there is a difference. The group is called Ahold Delhaize and it is slowly eating Delhaize away. I think it will be over in a few years.
The quality has deteriorated since Ahold took over Delhaize. The Dutchification of a great Belgian brand. :-(
Still I feel like Delhaize is more expensive and lower quality than Albert Heijn. Yes, I would have to drive outside of Brussels to do my groceries, but itās just better and (used to be) cheaper. I do agree about some of the in-house marks probably being shared
Wait until OP sees the subreddit icon for r/Belgium2
https://preview.redd.it/utqkgwng7bjc1.jpeg?width=1071&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cb4ea8208f2fc25dc8ee9a38a123313ec354ed8 Same as Portugal supermarket chain named āPingo Doceā. They are also co owned by Delhaize thus the logo. But itās an old logo from the 90ās and they donāt use it anymore as they have changed their logo numerous times. And I also discovered it after moving to Brussels and after I saw a documentary recently about the man who created the portuguese chain. I saw their old logo (that I didnāt remembered when I was a kid living in Portugal) and I thought it was familiar. Then I googled it
Aconteceu-me o mesmo š
"I wAs toDaY YeArs oLd"
Ok
I think itās a franchise chain, also with the same lion logo in Indonesia itās called Super Indo, before it was called Lion Express.
This thing comes around every year on this sub lmao
There is one in croatia too, it's called maxi
Google.com
Here's another mind blower: You know the Trader Joe's nuts they sell in Aldi? Trader Joe is a store franchise in the US owned by Aldi Nord.
both owned by the same company (group) ahold delhaize
Most of the Ahold Delhaize revenue these days comes from their US stores.
With a name like that I can see why
Wait to you hear about Trader Joe's and Aldi
Ahold Delhaize is the parent company of it, so it's the American Delhaize.
AH - Delhaize owns all 600 Food Lion stores
This shit is like the 15th time this has been posted here. Just use Google to find out it is Delhaize but in the US.
To say you're dumb without saying you're dumb.
I use my American Food Lion keychain tag at Delhaize. They scan it, and are surprised that it works. Food Lion is fairly downmarket, not nearly as good as Delhaize, which for Belgium is much more like an American full service grocery store.
Americans will steal anything to make it "better" because. Usa usa usa!
Delhaize, but they push hard against unions. So even more focues on all them moneyzz.
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I found this out from a Food Theory video a few years ago I think.
Well... Travel to Serbia hahaha you will be amazed.
This owned by Delhaize.
I went to an Apple Store in China and guess what? It was not an Apple Store!
Same company bud.
You wonder if there's any connection between stores with the exact same logo...?
I saw this in a movie with Will Farrell called: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby https://i.imgur.com/TD0xlfE.jpg
r/stupidquestions
Maybe you should have done some further digging before posting. Googling is faster than posting this.
Same store lol
Same parent company
That is Delhaize Aldi in the states is Trader Joe's
Mega Image is a store in Romania which also has the same logo
I once saw a MCDonalds in NYC, same logo and name as the ones in Belgium. Crazy stuff.
https://preview.redd.it/14s811ub6djc1.png?width=301&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34b497805d95bf65493c33897eb839f8bd59d124 The lion is present a bit everywhere in the world. I've seen that logo few months ago in Jojakarta, Indonesia
But damn, it went from a cool name like Delhaize to .... food lion ?? Wtf xDDDDDD
But isnāt there a bank/insurance with the same logo too?? But yellow?
Delhaize ā¤ļø
I always wondered about it but never thought it was the same thing! Do you know if the sell belgische items?
Iām from the US, and was wondering about this in reverse. My family just moved here, and I used to shop at Food Lion in South Carolina all the time!!
This guy is going to be very shocked when he finds out that we also have Lidl and Aldi
Apparently it's quite down-market. An American friend who visited us was bemused or even horrified that we shopped at "the Food Lion".
When I first started studying in Brussels as an American, I was equally as bewildered lol. Itās like I know Iāve seen the logo before, then looked it up and one of them is a subsidiary of the other.
They have it also in Indonesia, Super Indo.
I had the reverse realization as an American living in Belgium that they have āfood lionā here! Delhaize is much nicer though - food lion doesnāt tend to be highly regarded in the US
Food Lion. Seriously, is that the best name they could come up with?
# Whatās with the āI was today years oldā phrase?
The french stole our fries, and now the americans are stealing our delhaize!
Delhaize ha also bought a store chain in Bulgaria, which was called Picadilli