The first stores are expected to open their doors this September, and by the end of the year, a network of 20 low-price stores is planned across Lithuania, with 40 next year. Some of them will be established this year in the premises of the network “Mere,” which has ceased operations.
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The idea of the “Marytės” network has long been maturing in my mind, but it is a real coincidence that the creation of a new Lithuanian network begins with taking over the former “Mere” locations and contracts with the property owners. We are already finalizing lease agreements with the owners, so renovation work will soon begin there, adapting the spaces for an efficient low-price format,” explained Povilas Ugianskis, head of the new retail network “Marytės retail,” in a press release.
However, 15min readers raised the question of whether this time, as the new network enters Lithuania, it is not backed by the environment associated with “Mere,” as has already been seen in Poland?
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Dainius Dundulis, chairman of the board of “Norfos mažmena,” a company with 161 stores in Lithuania, laughed when he heard the 15min question about how he views the new player in the market: “As they used to say in my youth: the girl is the same, only the dress is different. This saying fits very well here.”
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