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 | | Even greater than the dominant role played by Aldi among discounters is that of Schlecker among drugstores: over 70 percent of all business conducted in German drugstores in the year 2000 carried the blue and white logo of the Anton Schlecker drugstore chain. |
 | | Furthermore, Schlecker continues to expand its business into the classic grocery segments: 11 percent of value sales at Schlecker in the year 2000 resulted from sales of groceries, especially coffee, candy, chocolate, chocolates, sparkling wine and fruit juice – growth of 20 percent, whereas food retailers lost four percent for the same shopping basket. |
 | | Schlecker's role as a competitor in the categories concerned is thoroughly mixed: on a given occasion it can be seen as a "cannibal" taking business away, and in the next situation it acts as a catalyst for certain markets. |
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