The Alta de Lisboa supermarket opened this Thursday, with 90 new jobs. There is potential for 11 stores in the capital, says the Spanish retailer.
Six years after entering Portugal, Mercadona opened its first supermarket in Lisbon, on Thursday. Lisbon High.
The Spanish chain predicts that, in the medium and long term, Lisbon will be able to host up to 11 storesincluding the two in May – Alta de Lisboa and Quinta do Lambert, in Lumiar.
The company wants to consolidate its presence in the capital, although it has not established a specific timetable for the opening of the remaining units, guarantees Inês Santos, director of institutional relations at Mercadona in Portugal, to .
The Alta de Lisboa supermarket represents an investment of 18 million euroswith a sales area of around 1,900 square meters and the creation of 90 jobs. The supermarket will also have a corporate office, which complements the existing one in Vila Nova de Gaia, and will have around 100 support staff in areas such as human resources, construction, expansion and purchasing. The move to this new space is scheduled for March next year.
Second Lisbon supermarket at the beginning of 2026
The second supermarket in the capital, in Lambert’s Farmwas scheduled to open in 2025, but was slightly postponed due to adjustments in the planning of the work. The opening should take place in the first quarter of next year.
To open a store, places like Chiado are more challenging for the retailer: it is difficult to find spaces of around 1,800 square meters, necessary for the Mercadona concept.
The chain ends 2025 with 69 supermarketsafter having started operations in Portugal in 2019, and with the objective set to reach 150 stores. The company ended 2024 with 7,000 workers, having recruited 700 more in 2025 to support the opening of new units.
