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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line Lidl opens twelve shops in the Canary Islands Trolley, steady, go Lidl has finally arrived to the Canary Islands, and given the huge queues outside each of the stores on their respective opening mornings, the German supermarket chain is here to stay.  According to Javier Suarez, Lidl’s Canarian manager, “our philosophy is to offer our clients maximum quality at the best possible price. “In Spain we offer a combination of national and regional products (fruit and vegetables are sourced from a Canarian co-operative), as well as a number of products from abroad, that our English and German customers will already know”. The vast majority of their floor staff are also locally sourced. It has taken Lidl a long time to get here, with local and insular obstacles to overcome along the way, but here they are, and if the reaction of most of the customers in the opening days is anything to go by, they’re in for the long haul. Certainly both German, English and Irish clients who spoke to Island Connections expressed their delight at finding goods from home at worthwhile prices in the new Lidl stores, where previously they would have been paying over the odds if the product was considered ‘specialist’ and carried a high import price. They were also attracted by the myriad of special offers in stock, which change on a regular basis. Jon, from England, and his Irish wife Shaunagh were among the first to shop in the store in Granadilla and left with a full trolley, happy with their lot. They told us they were delighted to have Lidl in the zone and would definitely be shopping there again. Certainly the arrival of Lidl to the islands can only be good news for the consumer. No doubt the existing big players will be watching Lidl’s progress closely, and we can expect campaigns to make sure their customers remain loyal. For shoppers it means a chance to shop around and match price for price as well as enjoy a whole new selection of products that have not been available on the islands up to now. The 12 Lidl stores in the Canary Islands are in, Tenerife in Puerto de la Cruz, Granadilla, La Laguna, Adeje, Santa Úrsula, Las Chafiras, in Gran Canaria they will open in Telde and Agüimes on February 25th and in Ingenio and Vecindario on March 4th and in Arrecife (Lanzarote) on March 11th and Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) on March 18th.
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