Shopping in Europe (Romania today)

Where to shop for what in Europe.  JC Penney's owns Primark over in Europe.  They apparently offer "fashion forward" clothing like an H&M and are more popular than IKEA for home goods in France right now.

A lovely store with larger clothing sizes up to women's US size 22 is owned by the Netherlands, it's called C&A and the logo looks suspiciously like our C&H sugar logo.  Hmmm.  They also have

men's and children's clothing.  
We are traveling to IKEA today to sample the store, pick up a 7.99 end table and eat cheap Swedish meatballs.

There's a Home Depot type store called Adeo, or you can shop at any of the Kingfisher group of stores, depending on location in Europe.  http://www.kingfisher.com/index.asp?pageid=23

For stores that sell everything and anything, you can always try Asda, the UK brand of Walmart.  Or google "Hypermarket" in any country for a local version.  These hypermarkets sell groceries to garden supplies and are styled after our own mega stores.

For us, we usually try to go to the local mom and pops first, then the local chains.  Support local stores can be a global goal:)