A dip in the Lido, Bell Green

Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 10 Aug 2022

The German discount supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl are well known in Britain and Ireland. Aldi built a store in Bell Green, Coventry, on Roseberry Avenue at the junction with Henley Road. It closed in 2019. Step in Ari Mustafa, a local businessman who runs a chain of Euro Supermarket stores in the city. He turned the empty building into a 'Lido' store, clearly a 'knock-off' homage to Lidl. "The food we will sell will be English, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Bulgarian," he told Coventry Live in 2021; "Bell Green is an area where there is a good mix of people, and this will be a supermarket that reflects that..." (see the Coventry Telegraph site https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/plans-unveiled-empty-aldi-supermarket-20766081 ) . Polish food predominates, with a large range of charcuterie (cooked meat, especially smoked sausage) at the deli counter. Lido is an Italian term for a beach, associated especially with the Lido di Venezia beach which surrounds the lagoon in which Venice stands. In Britain 'lido' became the name of a type of outdoor public swimming pool; see Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lido .

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