angst (supermarket)

Angst (which means fear in German), is a supermarket chain of 14 stores in Romania. It has a range of 10,000 products, mainly foodstuffs, and is the second largest Romanian supermarket chain, in a country where the retail industry is still dominated by independent shops and supermarkets, not chains. Angst is owned by a Swiss-Romanian joint venture. Angst operates mainly in Bucharest but is based in the town of Buftea, near the capital. It employs 670 people. The motto of Angst is Excelenta face diferenta (Romanian: Excellence makes difference)

Supermarket branches

By tradition, Angst stores are located in the city centre and are not hypermarkets - they are merely modern, smaller city supermarkets. Angst operates the following stores in Romania: Bucharest

Magazin 1 Mai (1 May Square)
Magazin Piata Amzei (Amzei Square)
Magazin Drumul Taberei (Drumul Taberei quarter)
Magazin Brezoianu
Magazin Brezoianu 2
Magazin Crangasi (Crangasi quarter)
Magazin Lacul Tei
Magazin Obor (Obor area, near the main city market)
Magazin Elisabeta
Magazin Pantelimon
Magazin Gara de Nord (Bucharest North Station)

Other areas

Magazin Buftea 1
Magazin Buftea 2
Magazin Sinaia - in the Carpathian resort of Sinaia near Brasov

Distribution networks

From its base in Buftea, Angst also distributes its products with the supermarket chains Metro, Selgros, Carrefour and XXL. It distributes products to four chains in 16 Romanian cities and 26 stores, of which nine are in Bucharest. The following stores stock Angst products in Romania: Metro: