Smart Club is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 retail chain with three outlets, offering the products from forty product categories. The stores have a membership programme which customers may pay 100NOK,- to gain bonuses throughout the year.

History

The company was founded in 1995 by Atle Brynestad through his investment company CG Holding and had eight outlets at a time. In July 2008, the chain was bought by Coop NKL

Coop NKL

Coop NKL BA is a Norwegian cooperative retailing company. Coop NKL is owned by 177 local cooperative associations in Norway and has more than one million members and who actually operate that stores. The company has its headquarters in Oslo...

 who converted three stores to their own hypermarket chain, Coop Obs!

Coop Obs!

Coop Obs! is a chain of 24 hypermarkets throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives. Prior to 2001 the stores were only branded as Obs!....

, two to Coop Mega

Coop Mega

Coop Mega is a chain of supermarket stores throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives....

 and one to Coop Xtra. They let two outlets, all in the Greater Oslo Region

Greater Oslo Region

Greater Oslo Region is a statistical metropolitan region surrounding the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The region includes the city of Oslo , the entire county of Akershus and several municipalities in the counties of Buskerud , Oppland , Vestfold and Østfold .It is divided into...

, stay under the Smart Club name. One outlet is at Alnabru

Alnabru

Alnabru is a neighbourhood of Oslo. It is located in the middle of the southern part of Groruddalen. The name Alnabru comes from the area around Alnaelva and the old Alna Gård. This has also given its name to the suburb of Alna where the neighbourhood of Alnabru is located.The neighbourhood is an...

 and the second is at Slependen

Slependen

Slependen is a relatively large and diffuse restricted area in Bærum, Norway.It has a station, Slependen stasjon.Slependen is also the home of one of the two IKEA in the Oslo area....

. In 2010 a new Smart Club was opened in Råde

Råde

Råde is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Karlshus. The parish of Raade was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....

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