Mercadona

True.

Because actually you park in Corte Ingles and you can go to Mercadona and just walking.

yeah what about um the there's a pescaderia that delivers and um they they you know from margesidas and they deliver here they bring it in you know

yeah yeah they're very good as well yeah they're very good uh i can't remember the name now but they are they're good we just had delivery from them one week ago for a oyster party yeah and uh Before they deliver, I always go there and I also have a few chefs who live in Algeciras.

And obviously that upset the people who are actually... who aren't going off on their holidays and having to deal with this.

It's like, we're not being racist, but we can't, you know, we can't go to Mercadona.

You know, my kid can't go and play in a volleyball tournament because the stadium's full of people that we've had to take over.

Now, they have put...

Submarines.

[laughs] Towns, towns that own Mercadona.

That, that kind of roughly-

Yeah

And okay, apart from Amazon Fresh, I don't have a subscription.

Where I can buy them? Okay, Spain, Mercadona, or I don't know, Kona, Kona, then Spar in Germany, something like this.

And I think that is the way that brands can be present everywhere.

We were always talking about SEO everywhere as a search experience, search everywhere optimization, and probably that is the ultimate definition of search everywhere optimization.

For example, speaking of Spain,

When everybody looks at retail data in Spain, they think, oh, Mercadona.

But the reality of the market is that Mercadona, it's the last guy you want to look.

Mercadona, you actually are everywhere else because that's the argument that puts pressure on them because otherwise they're going to destroy you like a sock.

Exactly.

It's the

My car, our car was scraped this week.

I was in Mercadona.

I came out of Mercadona and I could see that the car next to me looked... a little bit close and I went round and looked on the side that they were parked and I could see that there wasn't a dent, thankfully, but there was a little bit of black and their car was black and there were people sitting in the car.

So I looked at the car and kind of rubbed the thing off so it's not as obvious.

It's not really bad, but you can see that I've been scraped.

Couple of articles from the Euro Weekly News.

There was their main article talking about people parking across two spaces.

So taking up more than one parking space, how common that is these days and how annoying it is, particularly in the summer when it's been really busy and there's been lots of cars and you can drive around a car park in like Mercadona was the example they were using where a car took up three parking spaces and just how arrogant it is and annoying and frustrating when you can't find a parking space but also interestingly you can be fined for doing that up to 200 euros

And remind me,

Mercadona, is that the Waitrose equivalent? What's the Waitrose? Yeah, kind of.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

Really? Yeah.

In 2024, single people in Spain would head to the Mercadona's between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening, put a pineapple in their trolley to indicate that they were ready to mingle.

Is that really

true? I need to ask Pelayo that.

Children have to go back to school and they're now talking about delaying the start of school because they are worried.

They've got armed vehicles outside Mercadona.

So, you know, you can't say that it's quite normal to go and do your shopping when you've got police stationed outside these shopping centres and so on.

businesses are empty people don't want to go out of the house that they're worried so they're losing money left right and center um there's now they need vaccines to be brought from the peninsula to vaccine the people who are there who haven't had been vaccine for essential things that we take for granted like polio and and typhus that kind of thing So it's creating a stress on the medical service and the health service.