El Dorado is a supermarket chain from Uruguay, founded in 1929, which has seventy two stores.
History Founded in Maldonado in 1929 by the Ukrainian immigrant Tobías Polakof, it was the first supermarket in the interior of Uruguay. It is a family business with Uruguayan capital, owned by the firm Polakof y Cía S.A.. Tito Polakf brought the idea of the supermarket back from a trip and set up the first one on 18 of July 877 Street, half a block from Plaza San Fernando in Maldonado.
In 2022, El Dorado expanded to Colonia and in 2023 to Montevideo; it also has seventy branches distributed in the departments of Canelones, Cerro Largo, Lavalleja, Maldonado, Rocha, San José, Tacuarembó, Florida, Soriano, Paysandú, Río Negro and Treinta y Tres.
In 2024 El Dorado opened its first hypermarket in Montevideo.
Branches
As of January 2025, Supermercados El Dorado operated in 15 departments of Uruguay. The following is a list of branches documented in contemporary sources.
{| class="wikitable sortable" |- bgcolor="#efefef" !N.º !Branches !Location |- ! colspan="3" |Maldonado |- | 1 ||Dodera 882|| rowspan=10 | Maldonado |- | 2 ||Aiguá and Monterroso av. |- | 3 ||Batlle y Ordóñez and Mitre av. |- | 4 ||Tacuarembó and bulevar Artigas |- | 5 ||Lussich and Messina av. |- | 6 ||Tobias Polakof and Joaquín de Viana |- | 7 ||Cuchilla de India Muerta and Tupambaé |- | 8 ||General Leandro Gómez and Lima av. |- | 9 ||Francisco Martínez, corner Cno. de los Gauchos |- | 10 ||Ruta 10 |- | 11 ||Francia Parada 2 av.|| rowspan=2 | Punta del Este |- | 12 ||Calle 29 and Gorlero |- | 13 ||Ruta 10 and Ruta 12|| rowspan=2 | Maldonado |- | 14 ||Ruta 39 and Perimetral |- | 15 ||25 de Agosto and Sarandí||San Carlos |- | 16 ||Av. Ceberio and Rincón|| rowspan=2 | Maldonado |- | 17 ||W. Ferreira Aldunate av., corner Isla Canarias |- | 18 ||Félix de Lizarza 775||Pan de Azúcar |- | 19 ||Piria y Tucumán av.|| rowspan=2 | Piriápolis |- | 20 ||Simón del Pino y Misiones |- | 21 ||Ruta 10 y Las Violetas||Las Flores |- | 22 ||Gral. de la Llana and M. Muniz||Aiguá |- | 23 ||Barreiro parada 28 av.||Balneario Solís |- | 24 ||Calle 49 and Calle 25||Balneario Argentino |- | 25 ||Gabriel Pereira and Maúa||Piriápolis |- | 26 ||Dodera near Ituzaingó||Maldonado (Terra Bio) |- | 27 ||Virazón||Punta del Este |- ! colspan="3" |Montevideo |- | 28 ||18 de Julio de 2006 corner Dr. Pablo de María|| rowspan=2 | Cordón |- | 29 ||18 de Julio de 1807 corner Dr. Tristán Narvaja |- | 30 ||Yí 1369 corner 18 de Julio||Centro |- | 31 ||Sarandí 584||Ciudad Vieja |- | 32 ||Garibaldi av. corner Monte Caseros||La Blanqueada |- ! colspan="3" |Lavalleja |- | 33 ||Morales Arrillaga 757|| rowspan=3 | Minas |- | 34 ||Luis Alberto de Herrera 515 |- | 35 ||18 de Julio and Claudio Williman |- | 36 ||Dr. Podestá Carnelli, corner Rivera||José Pedro Varela |- ! colspan="3" |Cerro Largo |- | 37 ||Justino Muñíz and Herrera|| rowspan=2 | Melo |- | 38 ||Route 26, corner of General Agustín Muñoz |- | 39 ||Virrey Arredondo and Vapor Cebollati||Río Branco |- ! colspan="3" |Treinta y Tres |- | 40 ||Basilio Araujo 1067|| rowspan=3 | Treinta y Tres |- | 41 ||Enrique Rodó 1559 |- | 42 ||Manuel Melendez and Juan Rosas |- ! colspan="3" |Rocha |- | 43 ||Ruta 9 km 207|| rowspan=2 | Rocha |- | 44 ||General Artigas 1069 |- | 45 ||Nicolás Solari av. and Antares|| rowspan=3 | La Paloma |- | 46 ||Solari av. and Sirio |- | 47 ||Sagitario av. and Alfa |- | 48 ||Ruta 10 and calle principal||La Pedrera |- | 49 ||Arachanes 559||Chuy |- | 50 ||25 de Agosto and Rincón||Lascano |- ! colspan="3" |Canelones |- | 51 ||Instrucciones del año XIII, 609 av.||Las Piedras |- | 52 ||Mario Ferreira between calle D and E||Las Toscas |- | 53 ||Charrúas and General Artigas||La Tuna |- | 54 ||Rivera and Artigas||Santa Lucía |- | 55 ||De los Médanos and Paralela al Sur||Médanos de Solymar |- | 56 ||Paralela Sur and Congreso de Tres Cruces||San José de Carrasco |- ! colspan="3" |San José |- | 57 ||Río de la Plata av. and Ruta 1||Playa Pascual |- | 58 ||Ituzaingó between Asamblea and Ciganda||San José de Mayo |- ! colspan="3" |Tacuarembó |- | 59 ||Carlos Berrutti av. between Manuel Oribe and Gral. Artigas|| rowspan=2 | Paso de los Toros |- | 60 ||Florencio Sánchez, corner Ángela B. de López |- ! colspan="3" |Florida |- | 61 ||Libertad 1034, between Avda. Artigas and Treinta y Tres||Sarandí Grande |- ! colspan="3" |Soriano |- | 62 ||Carlos Puig and Dr. Adalberto Schuster||Dolores |- | 63 ||Colón corner Eusebio Giménez||Mercedes |- | 64 ||Libertad corner Florencio Sánchez||Cardona |- ! colspan="3" |Paysandú |- | 65 ||General Artigas av. corner Salto||Paysandú |- ! colspan="3" |Río Negro |- | 66 ||Zorrilla de San Martín, corner Enrique Beaulieu||Fray Bentos |- ! colspan="3" |Colonia |- | 67 ||Batlle y Ordóñez av. and Ruta 21||Carmelo |- | 68 ||Argentina and José Enrique Rodó||Nueva Palmira |- ! colspan="3" |Durazno |- | 69 ||Dr. Luis Morquio, between Manuel Oribe and Eusebio Piriz||City of Durazno.
Services El Dorado Credit Card Gift Card Home delivery orders
Stores As of January 2025, El Dorado has four branches; one in Maldonado, another in Lavalleja (Minas), another in Treinta y Tres and another in Rocha (Lascano).
See also Hipermercado Géant Disco
References
Bibliography 2013, Un hombre solidario (A caring man) by Ana Clara Polakof.
External links
Y un día Montevideo resplandece (llegó El Dorado a Cordón y va por más) La cadena El Dorado expande su negocio en el interior