Mercadona Opens New Supermarket Model in Two Major Spanish Cities
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Mercadona is a big supermarket company in Spain. It has opened a new type of store. The new store is called 'Tienda 9'. This means 'Store 9' in English.
The company opened two new stores. One store is in Bilbao. The other store is in Madrid. Both cities are big capitals in Spain.
Mercadona spent 11 million euros on this new project. The store in Bilbao is in a place called Miribilla. That one store cost 1.9 million euros.
The new stores use more technology. Juan Roig is the owner of Mercadona. He wants more technology in his stores. He is not stopping this plan.
People in Bilbao and Madrid can now visit these new stores. The stores look different from old Mercadona stores.
Vocabulary15 words
- supermarket
- a big shop that sells food and other things
- capitals
- very important big cities
- technology
- machines and computers that help us do things
- invest
- to spend money to make something better or bigger
- model
- a type or style of something
- owner
- a person who has a business
- million
- 1,000,000; a very big number
- project
- a plan of work
- chain
- many shops with the same name
- launch
- to start something new
- company
- a business that sells things
- plan
- an idea for the future
- store
- another word for shop
- spend
- to use money to buy things
- new
- not old; just made
Quiz
Answer key
1. Tienda 9 2. 11 million euros 3. Juan Roig
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Mercadona is a big _____ company in Spain. It has opened a new type of _____. The new store is called 'Tienda 9'.
The company opened two new stores. One store is in _____. The other store is in _____.
Mercadona spent _____ million euros on this new project. The store in Bilbao cost _____ million euros.
The new stores use more _____. Juan _____ is the owner of Mercadona.
People in Bilbao and Madrid can now _____ these new stores.