page_title: Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing
section_title: Locations
hierarchical_section_title: Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing / Locations
caption_attribution_description: English: Sha'ar Binyamin Industrial Zone
context_page_description: Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing is the third largest Israeli retail supermarket chain, behind Shufersal Ltd. and Alon Holding–Blue Square Ltd., with annual revenues of NIS 1.14 billion. Founded in 1976 on Rehov Hashikma in the Mahane Yehuda Market district, Rami Levy was Israel's first discount store. The chain claims to slash the price of the average basket of goods by as much as 20%. The company went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2007 and has increased its sales volume and number of stores each year since.
  Rami Levy operates a chain of 44 discount supermarkets in Central and Northern Israel. It also distributes wholesale to 450 stores in and around Jerusalem. The company has diversified into retail clothing sales, real estate, and cellular communications, with 20 stores of Rami Levy Communications selling cellular phone services at a discount.
context_section_description: There are currently 44 Rami Levy supermarkets, located in several Jerusalem neighborhoods as well as in Afula, Akko, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Bat Yam, Beersheba, Beit Shemesh, Eilat, Hadera, Haifa, Holon, Kadima, Karmiel, Kastina, Kfar Saba, Kiryat Shmona, Lod, Mevasseret Zion, Modiin, Nesher, Netanya, Nahariya, Pardes Hanna, Petah Tikva, Ra'anana, Ramat Gan, Ramat Hahayal, Rehovot, Rishon LeZion, Rosh Haayin, Tiberias, Yavne, and Zichron Yaakov.  There are also five locations in the West Bank: Beitar Illit, Gush Etzion, Sha'ar Binyamin, Ariel, and Mishor Adumim. Levy's stores in the West Bank are often cited as a model of Arab-Jewish coexistence, as Arabs and Jews shop and work there side-by-side.
  In 2010, the locations in West Bank, which attract thousands of Palestinian shoppers and top Palestinian Authority officials, – and which are staffed by both Arabs and Jews, were targeted by the PA's anti-Israeli goods campaign. For several months the PA attempted to discourage Arabs from shopping at Rami Levy supermarkets, culminating in an official boycott of the chain in September 2010.  At the same time, there were concerns among some Orthodox Jews in the area regarding security and especially the issue of intermixing between the male Arab shelving staff and the female Jewish cashiers.  All these issues have been largely put aside by the local populations, as witnessed by the multi-ethnic crowds that fill the stores on any given afternoon.
caption: Rami Levy supermarket in Sha'ar Binyamin.
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