More than 15,000 people made purchases in the first real,- hypermarket in Odessa

Odessa, October 16, 2009.  More than 15,000 people made purchases  in the first real,- hypermarket in Odessa on its first day of work, setting the record for all 440 real,- stores in 6 countries (previous record set by PanVitan store in Bucharest, Romania in 2007 was 10,000 purchases).

“The results of the first day are inspiring and they exceeded our boldest expectations.  We believed in this market from the very beginning and we were right ” – commented Ulf Groth, Managing Director, real,- Hypermarket UA.

The first purchase made in real,- Odessa was Acer Cor Duo laptop (1699 UAH), one of real,- so-called “bomb articles” - promo products that change every two weeks.  Overall more that 200,000 articles from yogurt to laptop were sold during the first real,- day in Ukraine, including 1,5 tonnes of chese,  4,000 pieces of bread, 6 tonnes of bananas, 4 tones of meat, 2,5 tones of fish, 2,000 pairs of jeans and nearly 1,000 ketles.

The frist real,- hypermarket In Ukraine was open on October 16, 2009. The 12,500 sqm. store with 8,500 sqm sales area and a staff of 420 employees offers the assortment of 30,000 food and non-food items. real,- first store in Ukraine operates as an anchor tenant of the Riviera Shopping City center, located in Kominternovsky district of Odessa oblast.