Supermarkets will be open in seven out of ten municipalities on New Year’s Day
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Supermarkets will be open in seven out of ten municipalities on New Year’s Day

NL Times  

It will be possible to buy groceries on January 1 in most places in the Netherlands. There is at least one supermarket open in seven out of ten municipalities on New Year’s Day, data from the site Openingstijden.nl, which was shared with ANP, showed. It has become more common for supermarkets to be open on New Year’s Day: this was only the case in five percent of the stores in 2015. Of the ten largest municipalities, Amsterdam, Almere, and Utrecht have relatively the most supermarkets open. The supermarkets of the following chains were taken into account for this calculation: Albert Heijn, Aldi, Coop, DekaMarkt, Dirk van den Broek, Hoogvliet, Jan Linders, Jumbo, Lidl, Nettorama, Plus, Poiesz, and Vomar.

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