Mercadona does not stop growing. Last year, he closed a record exercise with a net profit of 1,384 million euros in 2024. A 37% higher than the previous year. A good part of these figures is due to the company’s desire to improve the services they offer to its consumers, such as The change in your fishmongers which has already been established in several of its supermarkets.
Along the same lines, the chain chaired by Juan Roig is expanding the number of establishments that has its section ‘Ready to eat’. Although some customers can ignore it, it is not available in all Mercadona stores and, therefore, the company has been expanding this service every month.
This August is not an exception and, as published by the chain itself On its website13 new supermarkets can enjoy their prepared dishes. A section that does not only offer food in itself to eat, but also has a cold drink stand and a table and chairs area to enjoy it in the establishment itself.
New supermarkets that will have the ‘Ready to Eat’ section
Currently, Mercadona has more than 1,110 stores with the ‘Ready to eat’ section in Spain and in Portugal. This August, at the moment, the Moncofa (Castellón), Fuensalida (Toledo), Madrid (C/ Stockholm, 22), Reus (Tarragona, Ciudad Real (C/ Olivo, 32), Santa Úrsula (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Arahal (Seville) and Les francs del Vallès (Barcelona) have been incorporated.
To these, those of Santomera will be added on August 25 in Murcia (Avda. Juan Carlos I, 17), Aljaraque in Huelva (c/ El Condado, 2), Cuenca (C/ Hermanos Becerril, 25), Sabadell in Barcelona (c/ Pare Rodés, 24) and on August 26 that of Arganda del Rey in Madrid (Avda. De Madrid, 100).
It is a space that is giving great results to the company. And, in fact, it became very popular a prediction of Juan Roig in relation to prepared fooddefending the famous businessman who “in the middle of the 21st century there will be no kitchens”, mainly for the lifestyle that prevails today and the little time they have more and more people to cook.