Prisma is a Finnish chain of hypermarkets belonging to S Group. In Finland there are currently 71 stores in 51 different cities. The first Prisma store opened in Jyväskylä in 1972. In addition to

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and groceries, Prisma's selection includes a wide collection of clothing, sporting goods,

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, toys, entertainment and

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. Prisma's main competitor in Finland is

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'' chain. Prisma also has 14 hypermarkets in and around 5 cities in Estonia. The chain has also had stores in

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and

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, but they were closed in 2017. On March 4th 2022, Prisma's owner, the S-Group, announced the closure of all Russian operations.

History

In the past, the S Group's hypermarkets differed a lot from each other, as the cooperatives were allowed to choose their own concept. The names Sokos-market and Prisma, among others, were used. The S Group's first hypermarket, at the time called Sokos Market, was founded in 1971 along Tampereentie in Turku, but the following year, Jyväskylä's Seppälä Prisma was founded, and it got its name from a landmark built in connection with the

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, which looked like a prism. In the 1970s, Prisma/Sokos supermarkets were also opened in Kouvola,

Oulu Oulu ( , ; sv, Uleåborg ) is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after: ...

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Seinäjoki Seinäjoki (; "Wall River"; la, Wegelia, formerly sv, Östermyra) is a city located in South Ostrobothnia, Finland; east of Vaasa, north of Tampere, west of Jyväskylä and southwest of Oulu. Seinäjoki originated around the Östermyra bru ...

and Tampere, among others. The first Prisma in the Helsinki metropolitan area was opened in the Malmi district in 1987. The current form of the Prisma chain was born in 1988, when the S Group had begun to consolidate its stores under national chains. SOK considered Prisma a successful name, so it was introduced in all of the S Group's hypermarkets. The product ranges and marketing of the stores were unified. At the end of 1995, there were a total of 28 Prismas in Finland. AS Prisma Latvija was founded on January 17, 2006 as a registered S-group in Somijā.LETA citāts http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/ mājaslapā
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Gallery of Prisma stores

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