No baskets, no branding, no warehouses, no advertising, no shelves, no social media. There’s a word for Mere and it is ‘austere’. “You won’t see any frills, shelves or points for convenience,” says ...

Aldi and Lidl are facing a challenge from a Russian ‘hard’ discounter, described as ‘one step above a food bank’. With no warehouses, few staff and products on pallets, could it take off in the UK?

Given that we all place such a huge emphasis on the retail environment and all that goes with it in this Instagram/social media heavy world we are in, it was strange to visit Mere, the Russian ...

Mere, the discount supermarket chain that claims to be the ‘Russian Lidl’, has opened its first ever UK store in Preston, Lancashire. The 10,000 sq ft supermarket, situated in a former Nisa store in ...

Mere has officially revealed that the opening date for its first UK store is August 14. The Russian discounter said the disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic had slowed work on the fitout for its ...

RUSSIAN food retailer Svetofor opened its first UK store over the weekend, called Mere. The discount supermarket chain claims to be 30 percent cheaper than its rivals, Aldi and Lidl. But how much do ...

A supermarket dubbed the "Russian Lidl" has opened its first UK store - and The Mirror has been to take a look inside. Our first impressions of the first Mere, in Preston, are that it's super-clean ...

Discounter Mere, which claims to be 30 percent cheaper than Aldi and Lidl, is set to open its first ever UK store this summer. After first launching in Siberia back in 2008, the chain has since ...

A supermarket chain dubbed the “Russian Lidl” is planning on opening more than 300 stores in the UK over the next eight to ten years, it has been reported. Russian discounter Mere has already ...