Mere’s UK expansion plans are being hampered by supply chain and recruitment challenges. The opening of the Russian discounter’s second and third UK stores, originally expected this year, has been ...

Aldi and Lidl are facing a challenge from a Russian ‘hard’ discounter, described as ‘one step above a food bank’. With no warehouses, few staff and products on pallets, could it take off in the UK?

There is now a new cheap supermarket in the UK, with Mere claiming it will undercut even Aldi and Lidl. To see if its claims stack up, we compared prices against a discounter and a traditional ...

Mere, the discount supermarket chain that claims to be the ‘Russian Lidl’, has opened its first ever UK store in Preston, Lancashire. The 10,000 sq ft supermarket, situated in a former Nisa store in ...

A supermarket dubbed the "Russian Lidl" has opened its first UK store - and The Mirror has been to take a look inside. Our first impressions of the first Mere, in Preston, are that it's super-clean ...

A supermarket known as the “Russian version of Lidl” has finally started taking deliveries of stock ahead of the opening of its first UK store. Discounter Mere - which claims to be 30% cheaper than ...

Given that we all place such a huge emphasis on the retail environment and all that goes with it in this Instagram/social media heavy world we are in, it was strange to visit Mere, the Russian ...