Consumers across Europe no longer want to travel to big car-dependent hypermarkets on the edge of cities to buy food and goods. Here’s why.

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    Is that roughly akin to a general store?

    Exactly this.

    IGA or Foodworks

    IGA seems like a Mega Image (translated URL) but with more CSR and Foodworks seems like the same thing but with only local (australian) food (don’t know if that’s the case. Digging deeper, I find that the closest thing that we have here is something called La Doi Pași (roughly translating as two-steps away - it’s an expression we use for everything that lies in close proximity to you, whether those two-steps are actually 20-30m, 200m etc.) - that is, regarding the coverage in rural areas. Otherwise, yea, those were general stores, totally independent from each other.

    small grocery stores […] in most local shopping strips

    Was that a thing? Wow, our malls always were just one supermarket from a well-known chain and the rest was mostly clothing stores, a food court and a cinema.