This is store number 33 of Alvi, a subsidiary of SMU with local coverage from the Coquimbo Region to Los Lagos.

With this new supermarket, SMU continues to specify its opening plan for 2025, which included 3 new stores in one week.

September 2023.- In a ceremony that included the participation of the mayor of Peñalolén, Carolina Leitao, and the presence of grocers, Alvi, a subsidiary of SMU, inaugurated a new store in the Metropolitan Region. It is a modern 2,020 m2 room that focuses on serving business partners and owners of hotels, restaurants, casinos, among others, in the community.

The new store directly benefits the more than 5,600 merchant partners Alvi has in the commune, reinforcing the presence of the SMU subsidiary in the south-east sector of Santiago, offering grocers in the area a convenient alternative to supply their businesses. . In this way, the SMU subsidiary has a total of 33 stores in the country, with operations from the Coquimbo Region to Los Lagos.

Carlos Jurgensen, Alvi's Operations Manager, highlights that “this inauguration represents a great opportunity for the area, particularly for merchants, owners of warehouses, liquor stores, minimarkets, hotels, restaurants and casinos in the Metropolitan Region, since with this opening they will be able to supply their businesses at very convenient prices, in addition to having the benefits of Club Alvi. This new store reinforces our wholesale arm, offering low-cost products to grocers, which allows them to make their businesses profitable,” he points out.

For her part, the mayor of Peñalolén, Carolina Leitao, highlighted that “it is a great benefit for the commune, also for our small merchants and neighbors who can work in this location close to their homes. It is great news for Peñalolén that this Alvi opens, which can be used by the entire community.”

Those who want “altiro” benefits must be registered in Unimarc.cl and/or the Unimarc app. Once this step is completed, the customer can now opt for multiple discounts and promotions on various services nationwide.

The new Alvi store, which is located at Av. Tobalaba #11855, Peñalolén, offers customers the Pickup Point alternative, through which Alvi merchant partners can make their purchase through the Alvi Club App Shopping and pick up your purchase in store. In addition, it has LED lighting, modern equipment and new cold furniture, allowing energy savings and making the operation of the store more sustainable.

Carmen Pastén, grocer, owner of the Catakei minimarket in Peñalolén and trading partner of Alvi, highlights that “this new supermarket benefits us greatly. It is a spacious store, where we find all the products we need to supply our business. “It is very good for the sector that Alvi has opened a new location here in Tobalaba.”

The supermarket also has a stock of baskets from Alvi's current eighteenth-century boxes campaign, which are intended to be delivered as a bonus, donation or gift in order to accompany families during these National Holidays. In the store you can find two pre-designed alternatives that can be purchased at a value between $14,990 and $19,990 Continuity to SMU's growth plan

This opening, which is part of SMU's three-year plan for 2025, is in addition to the two recent inaugurations of its subsidiary Unimarc that took place last week. In this way, the company continues to shape its growth strategy, bringing the value proposition of its subsidiaries closer to customers and families throughout Chile. So far this year, the supermarket has opened five Unimarc and one Alvi, in addition to the remodeling of a store for the Super10 subsidiary, a clear sign of the continuity of its three-year plan that projects nearly 60 new stores by 2025.