During my journey on my way to the afterlife I stumbled upon came across a store by $AD (+1.91%) . (See pictures; I took these photos myself and edited them with AI)

Maxi is the name of this “series” from Ahold Delhaize.🦁

I’m always happy when I get to experience publicly traded companies in real life—when I visit their stores myself, such as $TJX or those from companieswhose products and beverages I personally eat and drink, aka $MDLZ (-0.83%), $MCD (-0.21%), $PEP (-1.28%), $ELO (-1.49%) ... etc.

These days, I actually mostly buy from companies where I’m a customer of the business model .

There’s some merit to that …

but not always, of course :)

This is also a kind of analysis, rather than just rigidly focusing on numbers and forecasts . But of course, it goes hand in hand with the Lynch glasses. 👓

But who am I to give anyone advice... you’re probably better off not taking it—you might even be better off that way 😂

Back to Ahold: You could tell in this store in Serbia, you could tell that people weren’t just shopping—they were also meet and stopto talk to an acquaintance… Especially among older people .

They probably all knew each other from their youth and meet up regularly while shopping.

I assume.

It also just looks like one of those Rewe stores (which I think is a good thing). Self-checkout lanes, which I also think are really cool—we have them in Austria and, I think, also in Germany? Yeah, definitely. Let me know.

Right now, my Ahold position is just under €6,000, which amounts to about 3.35% of my portfolio. I will probably make any further purchases, as the position is quickly too large if the stock rises again.

Have any of you ever been to an Ahold store? 🤔

If so, be sure to let me know.

Do you have Ahold in your portfolio? Even if you don’t, do you find the company interesting? 💬

Ahold’s operations include: 🌍

Europe:🇪🇺

Delhaize

Albert

Albert Heijn

Mega Image

Maxi

USA: 🇺🇸

Food Lion

Stop & Shop

Giant

Hannaford

Peapod