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indifferent394 at 2023-08-16 13:14:17+00:00 ID:
jwfd0heRIP Irma :’(
Available-Fox-8454 at 2023-08-16 13:17:38+00:00 ID:
jwfdhfhI also hate that i can no longer buy groceries with a 1000% markup
Br Eric, ceo
Ngstskr at 2023-08-16 14:41:12+00:00 ID:
jwfq3v7This is such a dumb take. Brugsen, Føtex and Kvickly is literally the same price ringe as Irma, but without the high end products.
It’s quite remarkable that two things the majority of Danish redditors can agree on is:
1 - Danish supermarkets suck
and
2 - Irma was a laughable concept only for snobbish Copenhageners
Egernpuler at 2023-08-16 18:12:26+00:00 ID:
jwgpl7lAnd at the same time they complain about supermarkets sucking, they'll complain about the prices at Irma, Meny and Kvickly. Danes want ICA or the giant luxury markets of southern europe as their supermarkets but only wants to pay Slovenian Aldi prices for their stuff. It's a tale as old as time.
t-licus at 2023-08-16 22:39:40+00:00 ID:
jwhxum9Danes have a shitton of money but when it comes to grocery shopping anything above Balkan prices is seen as a ripoff.
istasan at 2023-08-16 17:02:39+00:00 ID:
jwgdqzrI agree with you.
I have tried Lidl but I have never understood it. It seems mostly discount for me.
Somehow our Irma is still up and running. So is our Meny. These are the two closest supermarkets but absolutely also our favourites. They actually have a lot in common. To be honest I maybe prefer Meny a little bit Irma has some cool products (their yogurt and chicken for instance is better, hope they carry these items with them to the new chain).
t-licus at 2023-08-16 22:41:53+00:00 ID:
jwhy6gqSupposedly the Irmas still in operation are the ones that will be merged with Kvickly and Superbrugsen eventually. But according to the staff at my closest surviving Irma they are getting mixed signals from above and no one seems quite sure what the plan is.
Ngstskr at 2023-08-16 23:51:26+00:00 ID:
jwi898vMeny supermarkets are typically a lot bigger and has a much wider selection than a typical Irma.
But Meny is also more expensive than Irma and has very little ecological stuff.
Lidl is definitely discount, but I think of it as some kind of high end discount - the one closest to me is always clean and never messy, has some quite nice products that are different from other supermarkets, their vegetables are always fresh and the bake off is quite ok.
tobias_681 at 2023-08-16 18:16:42+00:00 ID:
jwgqba2I feel like Irma is considerably more expensive than Føtex and Kvickly. Don't know about Brugsen. Haven't been in one for a while.
Ngstskr at 2023-08-16 23:39:51+00:00 ID:
jwi6m4sThe thing is - in my experience - Irmas basic (ecological) products like vegetables, fruit and milk and other dairy is the same price for the same quality compared to the others.
But the others also have cheaper stuff of lower quality that Irma doesn’t have. Like 2 kg minced pork for 50 kr or Coop spaghetti for 7 kr. And Irma also has more expensive stuff of a higher quality that the others has very little of. Like meat from Gris, Lam & Ko who declared bankruptcy yesterday because Irma shut down.
t-licus at 2023-08-16 22:37:24+00:00 ID:
jwhxi4dMange af dem der fryder sig over Irmas død virker til at være jyder der har ondt i røven over at københavn faktisk plejede at have ét supermarked der var godt.
Ngstskr at 2023-08-16 23:42:05+00:00 ID:
jwi6xh0Det var noget af det mest bizarre at opleve hvor mange jyder, som decideret frydede sig over at Irma lukkede.
NorthNW at 2023-08-16 14:46:57+00:00 ID:
jwfr0uqOnly in Denmark would Irma be a “high end” supermarket. Literally anywhere else would it be a regular one
christian4tal at 2023-08-16 14:59:47+00:00 ID:
jwft3otLiterally is a word that not mean what you think it means. 200 territories in the world, name 10 that have better supermarkets than Irma and I'll name you 125 that don't.
dingbling369 at 2023-08-16 17:47:40+00:00 ID:
jwgldu8Those numbers are weird and your proposition is weird.
christian4tal at 2023-08-16 18:46:12+00:00 ID:
jwgvbksLol you're clueless let me spell it out: what countries do you consider to have better supermarkets, this is getting ridiculous get a grip man.
bossycrawdad at 2023-08-16 15:37:16+00:00 ID:
jwfzbgeLiterally can also mean figuratively. Just an fyi
NorthNW at 2023-08-16 15:42:52+00:00 ID:
jwg0953Name 125 territories (whatever that is?)
christian4tal at 2023-08-16 16:24:23+00:00 ID:
jwg7amhYou made the claim, you defend it.
Territories are similar to countries, just with slightly different status. Like Faroe Islands is considered a territory not an independent country.
tobias_681 at 2023-08-16 18:33:07+00:00 ID:
jwgt3avIs Irma more "high end" than Meny? I always thought the unique thing about Irma was that they have a couple of unusual wares that you wouldn't find other places.
That being said it's mainly the quality of discounters that creates this rift. In Germany ALDI is often about as good as EDEKA really but the Danish ALDI absolutely sucks ass and some basic wares are twice as expensive as in a German ALDI (this is the same for Lidl but at least the Danish Lidl is not quite as sad as Danish ALDI).
In Denmark you really only have 3 kinds of supermarkets (that focus on food and don't try to be a mini-hypermarket): Spar, Meny and Irma and maybe Føtex Food I guess which feels like a more expensive Netto. And because the Discounters kind of suck, the supermarkets will usually seem better and take a major markup for that - while in Germany EDEKA is actually pricing stuff rather agressively and competing much more directly with ALDI and Lidl.
That being said Irma would probably be something rather like Alnatura or whatever in Germany because Supermarkets and Discounters feel less different.
t-licus at 2023-08-16 22:37:56+00:00 ID:
jwhxl1wHaving lived in Sweden and gotten used to ICA and Hemköp, Irma is the only store I can tolerate. So of course they’re closing it.