<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">sent from a phone</div><div><br>On 26. Jun 2018, at 13:19, Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>What you just described there sounds<br></div><div>very much like my local Aldi, which most people here think of as a supermarket, not a discounter.</div></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>indeed Aldi is the first (at least in Europe) to operate this way. It is not unlikely the discount store description in wikipedia was influenced by Germans <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_store">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_store</a></div><div><br></div><div>and names Aldi and Lidl as examples:</div><div><br></div><div>“</div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">discount store</b> or <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">discount shop</b> is a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_shop" class="mw-redirect" title="Retail shop" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">retail shop</a> which sells products at prices that are lower than the typical market price.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A "full-line discount store/shop" or "mass merchandiser", such as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi" title="Aldi" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Aldi</a> or <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl" title="Lidl" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Lidl</a>, may offer a wide assortment of goods with a focus on price rather than service, display or wide choice within lines. Meanwhile, a "speciality", "single line" or "<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_killer" title="Category killer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">category killer</a>" discount store/shop, such as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys_%22R%22_Us" title="Toys "R" Us" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Toys "R" Us</a> or <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staples_Inc" class="mw-redirect" title="Staples Inc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Staples</a>, may specialise in specific merchandise lines, relying on bulk purchase and efficient distribution to keep down costs.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; background-image: none; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_store#cite_note-1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“</span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">cheers,</span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Martin</span></p></div></body></html>