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?

Russian discount grocer Mere wants to conquer Germany with its low prices. The new supermarket is selling half a kilo of coffee for less than €2, almost half the price of Aldi and Lidl, but not ...

Mere’s UK expansion plans are being hampered by supply chain and recruitment challenges. The opening of the Russian discounter’s second and third UK stores, originally expected this year, has been ...

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 ...

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 ...