Run on Lidl stores in Greek financial crisis

As smirking Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis plays Easy Rider on his motorbike and Merkel, Schäuble, Lagarde and Juncker look grimmer by the hour for the camera, the Greek tragedy unfolds apace. Nemesis here takes the ugly form of more than €320bn in unsustainable debt. Regardless of the outcome of the national referendum on the international bailout this Sunday, there is no doubt as to the protagonist: the Greek people. Forced to choose between the bitter cups of chaos or further decades of grim austerity, like the tragic hero of old, they seem damned whichever way they turn.It is an ill wind indeed, however, that blows nobody any good. The tormented country may be grinding to a standstill, but the 220 discount stores of Lidl Hellas continue to do a rip-roaring trade. So it must come as an irony for those Greeks who see the German financial machine as their oppressors that it is a German retailer who gives them the best bargain on the High Street.