MediaMarkt Crash Course: Where It Operates and What It Sells
MediaMarkt is a European consumer-electronics chain that says it was founded in 1979, and the group behind it, which also owns Saturn, lists about 1,070 stores in 11 countries. This crash course covers what you need to know before shopping there: where the chain operates, what its Pokémon card range looked like on 7 October 2026, and which buying rules apply.
- Founded: 1979, according to the chain’s own company page.
- Reach: about 1,070 MediaMarkt and Saturn stores in 11 countries, according to Ceconomy’s locations page.
- Pokémon range: three Top-Trainer-Boxen listed on the German site on 7 October 2026, priced between €57.99 and €59.99.
- Buying rules: private customers only, household quantities only, and a 30-day voluntary return right in Germany.
What is MediaMarkt?
MediaMarkt is a consumer-electronics retailer that sells in stores and online, and the footnote on its German Pokémon page refers to goods bought on mediamarkt.de or in a MediaMarkt store in Germany. According to its German company page, the chain “wurde 1979 gegründet” (was founded in 1979), and Wikipedia’s article on the chain says the first store opened on 24 November 1979 in Munich.
It shares an owner with its sister chain Saturn: the group Ceconomy. According to Ceconomy’s JD.com page, a press release of 2 December 2025 says JD.com secured a total shareholding of 85.2 percent in Ceconomy at the end of its takeover offer. RetailDetail’s report of 18 September 2026 says the European Commission decides by 23 October 2026 whether JD.com may acquire the group, so as of 7 October 2026 we do not describe the deal as settled.
Where does MediaMarkt operate?
Ceconomy’s locations page gives 11 countries for MediaMarkt and Saturn together. As of 7 October 2026 that page names the markets below, with one shared store finder for Belgium and Luxembourg, so ten entries cover eleven countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Italy
- Spain
- The Netherlands
- Belgium and Luxembourg
- Poland
- Hungary
- Türkiye (the page says it has no store finder for it yet)
In Italy the finder link on that page goes to MediaWorld’s site, which Ceconomy calls the MediaMarkt store locator for Italy. Our posts on the EU sneaker market and on Bol.com look at other European shopping options.
As of 7 October 2026, Sweden and Portugal are not among the markets Ceconomy lists. RetailDetail reported on 14 February 2023 that Ceconomy was selling its 29 Swedish stores to Power International, and Wikipedia says the chain sold its 10 Portuguese stores to Fnac Darty, a point we could not check against a primary page.
Why do the store counts differ between pages?
The counts differ partly because the pages measure different things: the whole MediaMarktSaturn group, the MediaMarkt brand alone, or Germany only, and some pages carry no date. We read every figure below on 7 October 2026 and kept the scope next to each number.
Two clashes stand out. Ceconomy’s brand page says twelve countries where its locations page says 11, and the German company page gives about 270 stores in Germany where the German store finder says over 330. The passages we read on those four pages do not say why the numbers differ. We lead with figures whose scope is stated and mark the undated ones as undated.
Read any store count as approximate unless it names its scope and its date. A number without either tells you little, which is why the table below gives both wherever the source does.
Figure Scope Value Source Stores in Europe MediaMarkt and Saturn about 1,070 Ceconomy locations page, read 7 October 2026 Countries MediaMarkt and Saturn 11 Ceconomy locations page, read 7 October 2026 Stores in Germany MediaMarkt and Saturn about 400 Ceconomy locations page, read 7 October 2026 Employees in Europe MediaMarkt and Saturn about 50,000 Ceconomy locations page, read 7 October 2026 Stores in Germany MediaMarkt only over 330 MediaMarkt German store finder, read 7 October 2026 Stores MediaMarkt only more than 1,008 in twelve countries Ceconomy brand page, undated Stores in Germany MediaMarkt only about 270 MediaMarkt German company page, undated Swedish stores sold MediaMarkt Sweden 29 RetailDetail, 14 February 2023 Does MediaMarkt sell Pokémon cards?
Yes, at least in Germany: the German site has a Pokémon-Sammelkartenspiel (Pokémon Trading Card Game) brand page with four categories: Neuheiten (new releases), Geschenkideen (gift ideas), Top Trainer Boxen and Tin-Boxen. We read it on 7 October 2026, and its intro text describes a two-player game played with 60-card decks.
The Italian site that Ceconomy links for Italy, MediaWorld, has a Carte Pokémon (Pokémon cards) category that showed 12 of 40 products when we read it on 7 October 2026. We did not read the other national sites, and a range on one site says nothing about the others, so look at your own country’s site before you plan around it.
A snapshot is all we can offer: one page on one day cannot show whether a retailer carries new sets consistently. Our posts on the Pokémon franchise and on where to buy Pokémon cards cover the wider market.
What is in a Top-Trainer-Box?
A Top-Trainer-Box is a boxed set whose contents list resembles pokemon.com’s Elite Trainer Box, though no page we read says the two names mean the same product. Pokémon’s page for the 30th Celebration box, which gives a launch date of 16 September 2026, lists 9 booster packs, 16 foil Basic Energy cards, 65 card sleeves and 6 damage-counter dice. Our post on the Pokémon TCG 30th anniversary covers the anniversary packs.
On 7 October 2026, the German Top Trainer Boxen page showed three boxes, listed at €59.99, €59.99 and €57.99, including VAT and excluding shipping. Two of them name Karmesin & Purpur expansions in their contents.
All three carried the notes “Leider keine Lieferung möglich” (delivery not possible) and “Leider keine Marktabholung möglich” (store pickup not possible). We read the page without choosing a store, which may affect those notes. Market prices move and are shown for reference, not as a promise.
Listing Listed price Contents as listed Delivery note PKM KP06.5 Top-Trainer Box DE €59.99 9 booster packs, 1 promo card, 65 sleeves, 45 Energy cards, 6 damage-counter dice No delivery, no store pickup Pokémon KP09 Top-Trainer-Box (Einzelartikel) €59.99 9 booster packs, 1 promo card, 65 sleeves, 45 Energy cards, 6 damage-counter dice No delivery, no store pickup PKM KP10.5 TOP-TRAINER-BOX (Z) €57.99 Not itemised (listed as 1 card game, 710 g) No delivery, no store pickup pokemon.com, 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box No price on the page 9 booster packs, 1 promo card, 16 foil Basic Energy cards, 65 sleeves, 6 damage-counter dice Not applicable What rules apply when you buy from MediaMarkt?
MediaMarkt’s German Pokémon page states some of its sales terms in a footer, and other countries’ sites may differ, so we read only Germany’s. The footer limits sales to private customers and to household quantities:
Verkauf nur an private Endkunden. Abgabe nur in haushaltsüblichen Mengen.
In plain words, that is private end customers only, in household quantities. The same footer gives Germany as the delivery area (“Liefergebiet: Deutschland”).
Returns work on two layers. According to the footnote on the Pokémon brand page, goods bought on mediamarkt.de from MMS E-Commerce GmbH, or in a MediaMarkt store in Germany, carry a voluntary 30-day return right from receipt, alongside the statutory right of withdrawal (online purchases only) and warranty rights. The goods must be complete, undamaged and in the original packaging, MediaMarktSaturn pays the return shipping, and the refund goes back to the original payment method.
The footer lists PayPal, Apple Pay, Klarna, Visa, Mastercard and Amex among its payment options, plus prepayment and payment in the store, and the company page advertises Click & Collect within 30 minutes in the store.
What should you check before ordering a Pokémon box?
Four checks help you avoid ordering the wrong thing: the country site, the expansion name, the seller and the delivery note. The expansion name is the easiest to verify, because pokemon.com’s October 2026 product list gives release dates from 2 October to 30 October 2026, and its product gallery lists a box’s contents.
The seller matters because the German footer says that buying from a marketplace seller means accepting that seller’s terms, and clicking the seller’s name shows more about them. The delivery note matters because the page’s availability filter asks you to choose a store (“Markt auswählen”), so the note we saw may change once a store is chosen.
NikeShoeBot is a checkout bot for sneakers, retail drops and collectibles that runs on your own computer (Mac and Windows). If you want to see what a checkout bot does with a retailer like this, NikeShoeBot’s MediaMarkt guide walks through it step by step.
We read all of the German pages above on 7 October 2026, so any price or delivery note on them can have changed since.
