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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 41 discount shops

Best discount shops in Budapest

The 10 most notable discount shops in Budapest, 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

    PENNY Budapest József krt.

    József krt. 45

    249 m from Rákóczi tér, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.468, percentile 100 of 41

  2. 2

    PENNY. Jász

    Jász u. 105

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.449, percentile 97.5 of 41

  3. 3

    PENNY Budapest Váci

    Váci út 9-15

    118 m from Lehel tér, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.442, percentile 95 of 41

  4. 4

    PENNY Budapest Baross

    Baross u. 6

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.435, percentile 92.5 of 41

  5. 5

    Guru Market

    Fogarasi út 15

    279 m from Pillangó utca, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.385, percentile 90 of 41

  6. 6

    PENNY. Pacsirtamező

    Pacsirtamező u. 41-43

    465 m from Tímár utca HÉV station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.356, percentile 87.5 of 41

  7. 7

    Lidl Supermarket

    Budapest, Bartók Béla út 47. 47

    157 m from Móricz Zsigmond körtér, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.279, percentile 85 of 41

  8. 8

    Ecofamily

    Rákóczi u. 36.

    624 m from Csillaghegy HÉV station, rail

    listed by Overture Maps Foundation and PinMeTo · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.187, percentile 82.5 of 41

  9. 9

    Ecofamily

    Hengermalom u. 19-21.

    listed by Overture Maps Foundation and PinMeTo · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.187, percentile 80 of 41

  10. 10

    Penny Market

    Ady Endre út 32-40

    573 m from Határ út, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.057, percentile 77.5 of 41

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).