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Best convenience stores in Bucharest

The 10 most notable convenience stores in Bucharest, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Arena Market

    Bulevardul Basarabia 96

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.436, percentile 100 of 10

  2. 2

    MyAuchan

    Soseaua Giurgiului Km 9 + 100, judetul Ilfov

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.000, percentile 88.89 of 10

  3. 3

    MyAuchan

    Strada Maria Rosetti 7-9

    745 m from Universitate, metro

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.000, percentile 77.78 of 10

  4. 4

    MyAuchan

    Calea Dorobantilor nr. 180, sector 1

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.000, percentile 66.67 of 10

  5. 5

    Clic Market

    Strada Bucur 18a

    690 m from Piața Unirii, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 1.876, percentile 55.56 of 10

  6. 6

    Carrefour Express

    Strada Petru Rareș 12

    208 m from Basarab, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.716, percentile 44.44 of 10

  7. 7

    dm

    Calea Victoriei 155,bl.D1 AP.12

    165 m from Piața Victoriei, metro

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.621, percentile 33.33 of 10

  8. 8

    dm

    Blvd. Dacia 169

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.621, percentile 22.22 of 10

  9. 9

    dm

    Calea Văcăreşti 214

    436 m from Timpuri Noi, metro

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.621, percentile 11.11 of 10

  10. 10

    La Doi Pași Rosia Montana

    Strada Roșia Montană 6

    411 m from Gorjului, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.110, percentile 0 of 10

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).