Mercadona has become the favorite supermarket for millions of Spaniards. Its billing figures, which triple those of its closest competitor, support it. If you count yourself among that long list of "loyal" customers of this chain and for whatever circumstances, you cannot go to your usual supermarket, surely you have asked yourself this question: How to find a Mercadona near me? Here you have the answer.
There are ways to find out if we are traveling to a location in Spain and Portugal, or if we are in another neighborhood or another location in the same city. Of course, you can always ask a person on the street, but why waste time if we have so many technological tools at our disposal to obtain the information we are looking for?
In this post we are going to see what are the means that we have to find a Mercadona quickly and easily. We detail them below:
From the Mercadona website
How to find a Mercadona near me? The first way to answer this question is to consult it in your official website. If you have your mobile phone at hand, it will only take a few seconds to perform the search. These are the steps to follow:
- First, we access the Mercadona official website.
- In the tab at the top of the page, click on the option «Supermarkets».
- there under the text "Find your nearest Mercadona and its opening hours" there is a search box in which we have to enter the name of the city, postal code or location.
- After entering the information, a map with the locations of the nearest Mercadona supermarkets.
Also on the web, just below the search box, we find another very practical option for those who access the web through a smartphone: "Use my current location". With this option you can also check which is the best route to get to the supermarket from the place where we are.
One aspect to highlight of the Mercadona website is that it allows us to make our purchases online. In this way, when we select one of the closest establishments, we can receive the order at home in a short time.
Via Google Maps
The truth is that Google Maps is an extraordinary tool with many uses. Of course, it will also be of great help when it comes to finding a Mercadona near me. This is how we should do it:
- First we open the google maps app, either the one we have installed on our mobile or from the browser on our computer.
- Let's go to the search bar navigator and we write the word Mercadona.
- The map that opens on the screen shows the results closest based on our current location.
Among other things, Google Maps will provide us with a series of important information such as the route to more easily reach each supermarket, opening hours and other data such as whether the establishment has parking, etc.
With the Mercadona mobile application
Finally, it is necessary to mention the Mercadona mobile application, very useful for the regular customers of this supermarket chain. And not only to find stores, but to carry out all kinds of inquiries and operations, such as making purchases online.
The app was launched in 2017 and since then improvements have been gradually introduced. For example, at first it was only available to users who lived in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, although little by little the spectrum has been expanding to other cities. Now it is very simple and intuitive. To date, between iOS and Android, more than 4 million downloads have been recorded.
This app, completely free, allows us to see in detail all the products that are for sale on supermarket shelves, add them to our basket, buy them and receive them at home. It also allows us to review our previous purchases to facilitate future purchases based on our tastes and needs. Really practical.
Obviously, it also has a search engine to find the closest Mercadona establishment to our home, place of work, etc. Of course, to make an online purchase you have to first make sure that the chosen supermarket is in the postal code list where this service is offered.
Mercadona It is one of the most important companies in Spain. It was founded in Valencia by Juan Roig in 1977 and currently has more than 1.600 supermarkets and close to 90.000 workers, with a presence in Spain and also in Portugal. Its market share in the supermarket sector is around 25%.