What is Makro?

What is Makro?

Makro is a cash-and-carry wholesaler aiming to supply all the needs of Food professionals and families that want to benefit from our great food assortment and prices. We offer a wide variety of products in food, perishable and non-Food. Makro operates in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, currently with more than 100 stores.

What is inside a Makro store?

Makro sells food and non-food products, usually located in different sections of the store. Each store also contains a hot-food cafeteria, and a cash machine . The food section always includes a fresh fish section, a wine section, fresh meat and butchery department, and refrigerated aisles.

What happened to the Makro stores?

The Asian stores were also eventually sold out to various firms and are no longer banded “Makro”. In 1998, owner SHV Holdings sold the Makro stores in Europe to Metro AG . Makro stores are not open to the general public (except in Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia and Thailand.

When was the first Makro opened?

SHV opened the first Makro in Amsterdam in 1968. In the following years more stores opened in the Netherlands and several other European countries and, in 1971, South Africa. In the 1970s and 1980s Makro extended its business to the Americas and Asia.