[jarcane]

Finland is historically not especially concerned with monopoly issues in any case. Nearly the entire retail sector is controlled by only two companies.

[anilakar]

At least the retailer with a 40 % market share can't deposit the money overseas to some hedge fund because it's a co-op.

[Ekaros]

But for some reason they can try to expand to next country... Which really puzzles me... After all they are collection of regional "co-ops". Even if the whole model is quite distanced at this point.

[humppadumppa]

Three, Lidl is big enough to be considered relevant competition.

[weberer]

For just the supermarkets, yes. But S-group and Kesko are huge. They own restaurants, banks, hotels, gas stations, home improvement stores, department stores, car dealerships, and a bunch of specialty stores.