Traditional Grocery Retailers

After posting a steep decline in current value terms in 2020, traditional grocery retailers saw sales rebound strongly in 2021. As concerns about potential exposure to COVID-19 receded with the rollout of vaccines and a drop in community transmission…

Traditional grocery retailers saw a recovery in sales growth in 2021. The easing of COVID-19 related restrictions, such as the lifting of tight controls on the number of occupants in-store at any one time and other social distancing measures, helped…

Traditional grocery retailers gained from the pandemic lockdowns, as with people’s movements being restricted, they shopped in local neighbourhood stores. Essentially COVID-19 had the effect of boosting the growing trend for shopping locally and…

Performance was muted for traditional grocery retailers in 2021. Inflation was relatively high in 2021, and while traditional grocery retailers registered an increase in current sales, there was a slight fall in constant value sales. In 2021,…

Traditional grocery retailing continues to be predominant in grocery channel, but its share has been strongly declining over historic period. The channel has also performed worse than modern grocery retailers during the pandemic with many consumers…

Traditional grocery retailers still dominate grocery shopping in Cameroon, but they are coming under increased pressure from the growing number of modern grocery retail outlets, which have a strong appeal for middle- and high-income local consumers.…

Traditional grocery retailers in Poland is a highly fragmented competitive landscape featuring a large umbrella of independent sellers under “others”. Since modern grocery retailers entered Poland and rapidly developed in the grocery space,…

Traditional grocery retailers in 2021 have seen a slight positive growth, in contrast to the broadly negative trends generated over the review period as these independent players were pushed out of the marketplace by modern grocery retailers. This…

During the pandemic, the number of traditional grocery retailers decreased slightly, and retail value sales growth was negative. Conversely, during 2021 traditional grocery retailers registered a rise in retail value sales growth, as consumers…

Traditional grocery retailers registered an increase in value sales in 2021. Traditional grocery retailers is a highly fragmented channel in Slovakia, comprising of many different, often traditional businesses, e.g., bakers, butchers, greengrocers,…

Traditional grocery retailers fared badly during the 2020 lockdowns, as consumers chose to shop in large, more spacious outlets. In order to avoid COVID-19 infection. In 2021, traditional grocery retailers registered a small recovery and there was an…

The downward decline of traditional grocery retailers was accelerated by COVID-19. To avoid exposure to COVID-19, consumers opted to do one big shop in modern grocery retailers, rather than more frequent, smaller shops in the local traditional…

In 2021, traditional grocery retailers recorded minimal growth overall, and this was slightly lower compared with the previous year. On balance, after sales were again driven by the lengthy lockdown, the overall slowdown in growth can be ascribed to…

The number of traditional grocery retailers was in decline even before the onset of the pandemic, and COVID-19 has accelerated this trend by making many local consumers more price sensitive. Moreover, traditional grocery retailers face increased…

Traditional grocery retailers saw a modest recovery in 2021. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Czech population increasingly favoured one-stop-shopping close to home, especially during peak periods of infection. This favoured modern grocery…

Competitive pressure from investments and expansion by modern grocery retailers and a consumer shift towards the various retail channels that constitute this channel, especially large chained operators, continued to negatively impact sales via…

Traditional grocery retailers were largely unaffected by COVID-19, recording small steady growth in both years of the pandemic. However, the channel did not perform as well as modern grocery retailers which benefitting from being able to adapt more…