The parliament in Bulgaria just voted for creating state-owned grocery store chain.
The aim is to fight greedflation from the other chains like Lidl, Kaulfland, Billa, etc.
Personally, I think this is a populist law and it will involve corruption. There were some scandals about the state owned company LB Bulgaricum that produces milk products – (milk, cheese, yogurt). The company was buying raw milk from certain private farms at higher price.
So I'm wondering do state-owned chains exist in other European countries?