Competitive Landscape
Lidl Accelerates Store Openings While Penny Targets Network Expansion
Discounters remains highly concentrated, with a small number of international players commanding the overwhelming majority of value sales and share. In 2025, Lidl Discount SRL held a share of 71%, significantly ahead of its competitors, while Rewe SRL (Penny) maintained a 26% share.
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Overview:
Understand the latest market trends and future growth opportunities for the Discounters industry in Romania with research from Euromonitor International's team of in-country analysts – experts by industry and geographic specialisation.
Key trends are clearly and succinctly summarised alongside the most current research data available. Understand and assess competitive threats and plan corporate strategy with our qualitative analysis, insight and confident growth projections.
If you're in the Discounters industry in Romania, our research will help you to make informed, intelligent decisions; to recognise and profit from opportunity, or to offer resilience amidst market uncertainty.
The Discounters in Romania report includes:
- Analysis of key supply-side and demand trends
- Detailed segmentation of international and local products
- Historic volume and value sizes, company and brand market shares
- Five year forecasts of market trends and market growth
- Robust and transparent research methodology, conducted in-country
This report answers:
- What is the market size of Discounters in Romania?
- Which are the leading retailers in Discounters in Romania?
- How is the rise of e-commerce and the expansion of modern grocery retail impacting traditional retail?
- How has the impact of COVID-19 and national lockdown impacted consumer demand?
- Which formats have benefited the most from stockpiling and enforced home seclusion?
- How will the wider economic impact of COVID-19 shape the retail landscape in the future?
- Where is future growth expected to be most dynamic?
Discounters in Romania - Category analysis
Key Data Insights
Discounters Summary
Auchan Repositions Hypermarkets as Atac to Capture Value-Focused Shoppers
Penny’S Hanul Boieresc Builds Loyalty with Romanian-Sourced Private Label
International Chains Expand Store Networks to Meet Rising Demand
Penny and Auchan Drive Automation to Boost Convenience and Loyalty
Lidl Accelerates Store Openings While Penny Targets Network Expansion
Retail in Romania - Industry Overview
2025 Developments
Key Data Insights
Robust Growth Despite Economic Headwinds
A Phase of Hyper-Concentration
Temu and Shein Intensify Competition as Trendyol Empowers Romanian Smes with Fast Fulfilment
Discounters Accelerates Value-Driven Growth as Price Caution Persists
Retailers Adopt Artificial Intelligence and Automation to Cut Costs
Lidl and Kaufland Expand Networks and Drive Concentration through Pricing and Digitalisation
Mergers and New Digital Launches Reshape Competition and Opportunity
Informal Retail
Opening Hours for Physical Retail
Seasonality
Valentine’s Day
Mother’s Day
Easter
Summer sales
Back to School
Black Friday
Winter sales
Christmas
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Discounters
Discounters are chained retail outlets typically with a selling space of between 400 and 2,500 square metres. Stores have a primary focus on selling a limited range of foods, beverages, tobacco and non-groceries at budget prices, regularly via private label. Discounters can be classified as hard discounters and soft discounters. Hard discounters, first introduced by Aldi in Germany, are also known as limited-line discounters. Stores are typically 400-900 square metres and stock fewer than 1,000 product lines, largely in packaged groceries. Product range available is predominantly made up of private-label brands. Soft discounters are usually slightly larger than hard discounters, and are also known as extended-range discounters. Stores typically stock 1,000-4,000 product lines. As well as private-label and budget brands, stores commonly carry leading brands at discounted prices. Example brands include Aldi, Lidl, and Dia.
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This report originates from Passport, our Discounters research and analysis database.
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