The Dutch grocery retailer Spar intends to launch an internet store for the Czech market. It is planned to be operational in several months. This means that Spar’s online shop will most possibly open by the end of this year or in the beginning of 2013 at the latest. At first, Spar will serve only customers in Prague and in the neighbouring areas. Prices at the online shop will be matched to those in the traditional Spar branches.

Today, Spar umbrella includes 33 Interspar hypermarkets, five Spar supermarkets. As Central Europe Retail Update informed in April this year, the company announced introduction of its small format onto Czech retail market – Spar City. Currently, one such store operate in the country.