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[Hyeon Een]

Homeplus is buying Homever. This is good because Homeplus is great and Homever sucks.

Oh and someone on another thread said that Homeplus was a 50-50 venture between Tesco and Samsung. That's wrong, Tesco bought most of Samsung's share a while ago. Homeplus is 94% owned by Tesco now.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2889833

[eamo]

Great.

I hope more and more Tesco own-brand products find their way onto the shelves............

[captain kirk]

Homeplus is already big. Now it'll be huge. Like the Korean 'Walmart'.

Does anybody know how much clerks get paid in Homeplus and how it treats employees?

[poet13]

How does the product inventory of Homeplus compare to E-Mart? The Homever near me is easy to get to, but yes, it sucks. The EMart is way better, but a pain to get to.

[GoldMember]

The French owned Carrefour stores become Korean, and 2 years later they become British. I wonder if the 2.2 Billion price tag will count as foreign investment into Korea.

[Horangi Munshin]

I've enjoyed the vastly increased cereal range for the last two weeks. Weetabix are back, Cranberry wheeties, Strawberry oat crunch and the mixed grain cheerio type stuff

[OiGirl]

I find Homeplus much better than E-Mart for the things I need.

[lucas_p]

I find both have their strong points for shopping. [/thread]

[mrsquirrel]

Where is the closest Homeplus to Yongin/Suji/Bundang or Suwon.

[meangradin]

tesco sells their own brand of coffees and teas; that enough is reason to shop their

[tzechuk]

Excellent.

[sunhelen]

In my experience Homeplus is a little more expensive than Emart, but the quality is better. There is a list of all Homeplus stores on their home page, www.homeplus.co.kr but you need to be able to read Korean to find it. There is a Homplus in Suwon somewhere and one near the Yeongdengpo Station.

[ttompatz]

[Ethan Allen Hawley]