Are German discounters heading up an invasion?

Kyran Fitzgerald asks will many small Irish retailers and suppliers be forced out.

The German discounters are on the march.

Will they carve out a large slice of the Irish grocery pie, putting real pressure on the other grocers and on Ireland’s increasingly hard pressed suppliers, while inaugurating a new era of hard price competition in the grocery trade ? And are they merely the forerunner of an even larger invasion by the huge US based retailer, Wal Mart ?