Balgarianovinite.com Lidl Bulgaria distributed 53 tonnes of euro coins across its store network since December 2, Lidl Bulgaria Chief Executive Officer Milena Dragijska said on Friday. She spoke at a briefing on the introduction of the euro in Bulgaria.
Friday was the first working day for the chain’s stores already operating in euros. “We opened at 10:00, I personally made my first purchase at 10:02 at our store in the Iztok borough and everything went smoothly at a self-checkout with a card,” Dragijska said.
She said there was no rounding of prices and that receipts showed change in both levs and euros.
“The law requires us to give change in euros; only if there is no physical availability, in levs, but the customer can pay in any combination of the two currencies. That is why, for convenience, we programmed it so the change can be seen in both levs and euros,” Dragijska said.
She said that from 16:30 on December 31 until Friday morning, the chain had replaced the labels, with all prices now displayed in euros on top and in levs below.
“To ensure we were prepared to provide exact change, [on Thursday] we conducted a live test of what we had practiced repeatedly over the past several months,” Dragijska said. “About 350 people were on duty that day, two in each store, so we could run through everything one last time in practice,” she added.
She showed a cash register drawer. It weighed 10 kg because it was stocked with every coin denomination so staff could give exact change without rounding prices. She said it contained the most rolls of one- and two-cent coins and added that the company was not concerned about making change for large banknotes.
She said the company had not experienced any issues with POS terminals in its stores. In Sofia and other large cities, she noted that some individual stores had more than 60%-70% of payments made by card, while the national average was between 38% and 42%, depending on whether it was a weekday or the weekend.
“We were inspected by regulators on December 31, and on Friday we have had one or two further visits, but that is normal. Let the inspections take place so it is clear how we have done our work and, in fact, to reassure citizens,” Dragijska said. Lidl Bulgaria Rolls Out 53 Tonnes Of Coins On First Full Euro Day 2025 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-01-02 17:26:19 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law