Bucharest lags behind in terms of supermarket area per capita

Bucharest had 110 square metres of supermarket area (which includes all forms of modern food retail) per thousand inhabitants, a twice smaller value than for Cluj-Napoca, according to data centralised by ZF. Big provincial cities, which include Timisoara, Brasov and Constanta have better coverage than Bucharest, although nine of the largest food retailers are present in the capital. Timisoara, Constanta and Brasov, some of the largest cities in Romania in terms of number of inhabitants, each have 175 to 180 square metres of supermarket area per thousand inhabitants, above the 110 square-metre average in the capital. The situation could be reversed when the store networks end the aggressive expansion on the local market, with many companies still focusing on the Bucharest market.