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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line Lidl Canarias - Supermarket openings A Lidl goes a long way Thousands of shoppers all over the Canaries have been waiting for the big day when Lidl finally opens its many doors to retails in the archipelago.  Speaking at the inauguration of the centre, Michael Aranda, the director general of Lidl Spain, referred to the years’ long battle to be granted the proper licencing to open their stores here in the islands, but, he said, “after innumerable meetings with the regional government, Cabildos and town councils...and a long and hard road, Lidl is in the Canaries at last”. Regional director Javier Suárez said that last year the company had spent two million euros buying from Canarian producers, saying that the Lidl chain was an excellent opportunity for local producers to sell their produce internationally. He added that the company had also opted for residents and those on the dole in their employment selection process. The official opening was also presided over by Cabildo president Ricardo Melchior, and Granadilla mayor Rafael José Yanes Mesa. The former, who is always disarmingly frank, welcomed the opening, and stated his hope that “prices will drop and more jobs will be created than destroyed”, by the arrival of the new stores across the islands. The opening timetable, according to official sources will see the Tenerife supermarkets in Puerto de la Cruz and Granadilla open on February 4th, Adeje and La Laguna on February 8th and Santa Úrsula and Las Chafiras on February 11th. In Gran Canaria stores in Agüimes and Telde will be opened on February 25th and in Vecindario and Ingenio on March 4th. The final two stores in this initial phase will open in Lanzarote in Arrecife on March 3rd and in Puerto del Rosario in Fuerteventura on March 18th. This article appears in the print edition 609 of Island Connections
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