Its direct competitors are: Sam's Club (mainly nationally) Costco Wholesale (primarily nationwide) Ley Mayoreo and Super Mayoreo Ley (competitor to some extent, due to its wholesale sales scheme) Centrals or Supply Markets of the cities where it is present. In 2008, Soriana converted two Gigante stores in Mexico City and Querétaro and a Bodega Gigante store in Puebla into City Club, this because they were Gigante stores where there were already Soriana in the vicinity of them (mainly) or where, having at least two or more Gigante branches and one of the two buildings would have already been converted. Super City Format created in 2005 under the format of convenience stores which have a sales surface area between 70 and 80 m2 and currently no longer operate under the franchise system. They handle last minute shopping products such as coffee, snacks, sweets, bakery, groceries and beverages, among others. Its main competitors are: Oxxo (FEMSA) 7- Eleven (Chapa House) Extra (Model Group) Circle K Super Kiosko (Only in Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima and Michoacán) Bodega Aurrerá Express (competing to some extent, because it is an express supermarket) Chedraui Supercito (competitor to some extent, because it is an express supermarket) Farmacias Guadalajara (competing to some extent, since it is a super pharmacy) Sodimac Homecenter In 2016, Soriana entered into a collaboration agreement with the Chilean retail company Falabella for the opening of stores of the Sodimac chain in Mexican territory. The deal gives Soriana and Falabella 50-50 equal control of Sodimac's Mexican subsidiary. Its first store opened on August 3, 2018, in the municipality of Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, next to a Mega Soriana supermarket. Other openings have occurred in the municipalities of Tlalnepantla and Naucalpan in the same state, in the municipality of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos, as well as in the states of Veracruz and San Luis Potosí. These stores are formats dedicated to the sale of construction material (Sodimac Constructor), hardware, home improvement and DIY, as well as services related to these activities, and installed in properties where Soriana already had another of its formats (especially those of the Mega Soriana and Soriana Híper formats). Its main competitor at the national level is the North American The Home Depot, as well as local hardware stores such as Ferreterías Fix and Comex. Due to the type of turnaround