Euro Quiz # 84 - All About Stores...
 

One of my favorite things to do is peruse supermarkets and department stores and eat at street-food places and cheap restaurants - in Europe that is - today's quiz is all about stores - department stores, supermarkets, snack bars, etc.

1- Berlin's most famous department store is called what and what do each of the three 2 letter abbreviations stand for - the longer words that is?

2- Called by Wiki 'the third largest department store group in Europe' this Spanish department store in a fixture in every Spanish town - what is it and how did it get it name?

3- The Casino group and Galeries Lafayette one owns this chain of stores selling food and everyday essentials - originally a dime store - it's name means "one price" - kind of like our dollar stores?

4- Sylvio Berlosconi's group used to own this Italian supermarket chain still a mainstay in Italy?

5- This original French discount supermarket and hypermarche started in 1948 in Landerneau Brittany and now has 568 places in France and once had a claim that they had the cheapest petro prices - in defiance of a then law setting gas prices at the pump the same everywhere.

6- In London if you want a snack sandwich or coffee head to this chain started in 1984 in Hampstead, London - what is its name and what was the name a take-off on? Once owned by McDonalds it is now also in Hong Kong, NYC, Chicago, DC, Paris, Shanghai and Boston. Often just referred to my its first word in its name.

7- This huge French hypermarche operation started by one man in the Hautes-Champs section of Roubaix, France in 1961 - it takes its name as a prononciation of the district of Roubaix it started in?

8- This English hamburger place started in 1934 was named after a character in Popeye - who was that and what is the chain's name (could be defunct now , not sure).

9- This Belgian imitator of Burger King and MacDonalds in France used the slogan "XXXXX Qui Epate les Americaines" - which translates kind of "which amazes the Americans".

10 - This discount grocer began in Germany as a competitor to Aldi and now has 10,000 stores in Europe?

1- KDW Kaufhaus des Westens (Department store of the West)

10- Lidl

1. KaDeWe - Kaufhaus des Westerns

2. El Corte Ingles [no idea how it got the name]

3. monoprix

4. non lo so [i don't know in italian]

5. Hypomarche

6. Pret a manger

7. ?

8. Wimpy

9. /

10. Lidl.

grrrr - has two right
annhig - 4 correct plus two 1/2 correct so take the ton of snow - oops all gone but a few pockets - well more than a few. Plus S&H!

1. KaDeWe

2. Corte Ingles

3. Monoprix

4. Conad

5.Franprix

6. Pret-a-manger

8. Little Chef

Thin

Please allow me to correct #1 - Kaufhaus des Westens without the r. I doubt they sell equipment for cowboys and Indians (except for carnival). ;-)

5. Leclerc ?

7. Auchan
9. Quick

Correction to question # 4 - the one I was looking for is defunct and taken over by Billa and Conad (splitting up into two in two sections of Italy) - Conad will of course be considered correct as will Billa - I was looking for STANDA - which shows I have not been to Italy in a while or forgot about not seeing it.

Wiki - about Standa: "It was founded in 1931 as Magazzini Standard (Società Anonima Magazzini Standard) by a former executive of UPIM and subsequently renamed as Standa (acronym for Società Tutti Articoli Nazionali Dell'Abbigliamento). When it was bought by Montedison in 1966 it had 126 branches all over Italy. It was owned by Silvio Berlusconi on July 1988, through Fininvest, who in 1998 sold the "non-food" stores to the Coin due to a financial crisis. In 1999, the grocery stores chain was disbanded and the stores sold by geographical position: the stores based in Northern Italy were sold to REWE Group and those based on Southern Italy were sold to Conad. The Standa trademark is now officially owned by REWE, who in 2009 has rebranded its supermarkets as Billa."

weird - i posted that the R was a typo but it disappeared.

though I like your idea of a shop selling westeRn outfits, quokka.

I think that Thin has done better than me so i hereby donate the ton of snow to him.

all the answers are in but the half of the El Cortes Ingles question - where did that name come from?

Wiki says that it began as a tailor shop and an 'english cut' was a type of tailoring cut.

and the half of the Pret a Manger question - the name is a take off on Pret a Porter - clothes ready to wear out the door. The French sounding name was meant to evoke the traiteurs of Paris who sell fancy take out food treat - the name could have been - my speculation - also to fool Londoners and visitors into thinking this was really a French operation - instead of being started by a small snack shop opposite a suburban Tube station.

Thin's idea of 'snow' may not be the type of 'snow' I am offering!

Just got in and its 3pm already.

Nice to come late and just learn from the answers.

Oh Percy - always a day late and a dollar short!

Yes PalenQ...all the snow is gone, today was a warm sunny day so I was out most of the day.
Tough to sit at the computer when the sun is shining and birds are singing.:)