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The German retail chan Lidl has given up plastic bags in Lithuania. Other major retailers say they either plan to do so or provide other alternatives.

Lithuania's State Food and Veterinary Service has received four complaints over this week on needles found in foodstuffs.

The accession of German-owned retail chain Lidl to Lithuania has pulled down the prices for food products in Lithuania, however, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, emphasizing they would never be as low in Lithuania as they are in the neighboring Poland.

Retail chain Lidl, which started trade activities in Lithuania last summer and is currently operating 21 stores across the country, celebrates first Christmas with special festive offers for the customers and further expansion, Lidl press office reported in a press release.

The attempts to stop Lidl investments in a building in Vilnius are unacceptable, and all obstacles on the path should be removed, says Diana Varnaitė, director of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department.

The German retailer Lidl opened 15 stores across Lithuania last week. While queues of shoppers on the opening day suggested that the market was starved for budget retailers, Lidl is secretive about its expansion plans in the country.

Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis, who is the president of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, has been the face of the launch of German retail chain Lidl in the country - but that may prove a problem ahead of the Olympic Games.

The German budget retail chain Lidl came to Lithuania with a bang last week and experts believe it can continue this momentum despite a number of local challenges.

One of the most important and anticipated events in the retail market in Lithuania is the opening of Lidl’s first chain of stores - some expect that Lidl will change the grocery retailing landscape in Lithuania completely but is Lidl really such a threat to the leading grocery retailers in Lithuania...

German budget supermarket chain Lidl is having a big opening day in Lithuania today, with buyers lining up for what they hope will be pocket-friendly grocery shopping.

As the Lidl supermarket chain prepares to open in Lithuania, the impact of the company's arrival in Lithuania has already become apparent.

With only a few days until the Lidl supermarket chain opens its doors in Lithuania, some of the prices of products in its stores are becoming clear.

On Thursday, 2 June, the Lidl supermarket chain will open its first 15 stores in Lithuania. There will be 5 stores in Vilnius, two in Kaunas, and one each in Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Alytus, Marijampolė, Kėdainiai, Kretinga, Telšiai and Mažeikiai.

Lidl, which is due to open a raft of stores across Lithuania in the coming months, has signed up a number of major Lithuanian food companies to supply its outlets, indicating it may open as early as the beginning of June.

Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis will be the face of Lidl's forthcoming advertising campaign as it opens a raft of stores across Lithuania.

German-owned discount supermarket chain Lidl opened a logistics centre near Kaunas on Thursday.

Lidl will be the first retail chain in Lithuanian to use electricity from renewable energy sources to power its stores and logistics hubs across the country, according to Energijos Tiekimas, the company supplying it with the green electricity.

Everyone has heard that the German retail chain Lidl is to open stores in Lithuania but that is pretty much everything anyone knows about it. Is this absence of fanfare an oversight or a brilliant PR move?

Lithuanian construction company Mitnija and Lidl, one of Europe's largest retail companies, have signed an agreement for the construction of three grocery stores in Kaunas.