Economy
Marinopoulos travails point to wider difficulties for supermarket sector
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It’s been a dramatic days for the Marinopoulos, Greece’s biggest supermarket chain. The company filed for protection from its creditors last Tuesday amid 1.3 billion euros of debt, an unprecedented amount for a Greek company. A court granted it temporary respite on Friday.
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