Hypermarkets

Retail sales of hypermarkets notably increased during the first year of the pandemic in Taiwan, benefiting from the surge in bulk purchases of food and daily essentials. In addition, leading players rapidly developed or enhanced their e-commerce…

Hypermarkets faces long-term challenges, notably the gradual erosion of the one-stop shopping trend amongst German households. In addition, in 2022 hypermarkets also suffered from the major disruption created by the rebranding of most Real stores,…

Hypermarkets have been facing several challenges, which includes high operating costs and waning consumer appetite for this type of retail format, resulting in some players struggling to survive. The intense competition with convenience stores is…

While hypermarkets registered an increase in current value sales, constant value sales fell, due to soaring inflation. In response, consumers prioritised essentials and there was a significant drop in value sales of non-grocery items. In addition,…

Offline sales growth remains sluggish at hypermarkets, with this store type struggling due to a consumer shift to online shopping and the government’s operating restrictions. The disappointing sales performances in recent years have therefore been…

Despite prolonged time spent at home in Japan during the pandemic, value sales through hypermarkets declined compared to a positive performance by supermarkets in 2020. This decline continued in 2021 and 2022, as many local consumers generally favour…

Future Retail was one of the biggest retail players in India with its banners like Big Bazaar and Easy Day, but it has gone from being the leading player in the Indian hypermarkets channel to nothing much more than a bit-part player over the review…

Hypermarkets as a grocery retail format in Italy was already losing ground to competitors such as supermarkets and discounters prior to the pandemic, but in 2020, the channel recorded a notable decline in value sales as local consumers avoided…

With different strategies, the large retail chains are betting on infrastructure changes to make selling spaces in large outlets more efficient. Large stores by themselves are no longer perceived to be a competitive advantage or added-value aspect.…

Hypermarkets are the slowest growing format amongst modern grocery retailers. Over the review period, consumers’ grocery shopping habits progressively moved away from large weekly shops, towards smaller more frequent shops in local neighbourhood…

Hypermarkets continued to record stable growth momentum in terms of value sales in 2022. There has been a gradual shift away from the mid-priced segment in grocery retail in Sweden, with growth being seen by both more competitive stores and more…

Consumers tried to save money in 2022, as the impact of the COVID-19-induced economic crisis and the war in Ukraine resulted in lower levels of consumer confidence than seen even during the height of the pandemic. This led some consumers to shift to…

Hypermarkets registered an improved performance in 2022, although retail sales continued to decline in constant value terms. This was due to fierce competition from other grocery formats, particularly discounters, as mounting inflationary pressures…

Hiper de Lider, Walmart’s hypermarkets brand, which has long been perceived by Chilean consumers as the more affordable of the brands in the channel, continues to reach price-sensitive consumers by leveraging its “Precios que no se tocan”, (Prices…

In 2022, hypermarkets saw growth in outlet numbers for the first time in many years, which contributed to slow value growth. In addition, with the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, Spanish consumers returned to shopping in physical stores as they…

Hypermarkets in China experienced a temporary spike in sales during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as consumers engaged in panic-buying and stockpiling. However, since then, the channel has seen a return to decline in current value sales,…

Hypermarkets recorded the strongest decline, in value sales terms, across the grocery retail categories in 2022. The channel continues to be challenged by various factors – including a growing consumer preference to shop locally, in smaller grocery…

As Coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions eased during 2022, retail current value sales of hypermarkets started to rebound from strong declines, which predated the pandemic. Thus, hypermarkets’ retail current value sales remained well below the…

Since the pandemic, retailers have been reviewing their expansion strategies to focus on providing greater convenience through proximity stores in smaller formats. The trend persisted in 2022, supported by economic volatility, reinforcing a more…

As US consumers began to psychologically move past the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, many returned to shopping in bricks-and-mortar stores again. Many hypermarket operators anticipated that this surge in consumer spending would continue into 2022. As a…