Hypermarkets

For most of the review period supermarkets performed better than hypermarkets in terms of retail current value growth. In 2020, however, this trend was flipped as hypermarkets recorded a higher retail current value growth rate than supermarkets for ...

Hypermarkets were able to benefit from the general increase in sales in grocery during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some players, such as Jumbo, offered additional services, including consumer foodservice and dry cleaning. Although foodservice was ...

Hypermarkets turned out to be popular during the pandemic and saw an increase in retail value sales in 2020. At the start of lockdown in March and April, as the government attempted to curb the spread of COVID-19, hypermarkets’ large product ranges ...

Shifting consumer spending habits during the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on hypermarkets, with the category seeing reduced growth, albeit positive, in 2020. Given consumers’ diminished purchasing power due to the virus, competitive ...

As one-stop shops for all necessities, hypermarkets benefited from consumers’ stockpiling behaviour during the first half of 2020. The only grocery retailing channel that performed (nearly) as well during the year was discounters, which also saw ...

The COVID-19 crisis hit hypermarkets harder than other modern grocery retailing channels in 2020. Initially, hypermarkets benefited from their large space and extensive product offer, as consumers looked to stock up on large amounts of essential ...

Value declines in hypermarkets slowed down in 2020, due to the stockpiling trend which benefited grocery retailers overall. Hypermarkets were favoured by consumers during the time of COVID-19, as they offer a wide range of products catering for the ...

In 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, hypermarkets in Taiwan posted only a marginal decline in sales due to the fact that such retailers were considered to be essential. Out of fear of contracting the virus, many consumers preferred to shop at ...

COVID-19 precipitated a surge in grocery spending by Irish consumers in 2020, particularly during lockdown periods. However, Tesco Extra, the only hypermarkets brand present in the country, did not benefit to the extent that might have been expected,...

When you think of hypermarkets in the UAE, the image that comes to mind are massive outlets teeming with consumers and long queues. In 2020, those attributes made some consumers wary and pushed them toward more local supermarkets. Furthermore, while ...

The rate of growth in retail current value sales of hypermarkets slowed only modestly during 2020. While the economic shock of COVID-19 led many consumers to reduce their discretionary spending on groceries, hypermarkets benefitted from increased ...

During 2020, the pandemic led to foodservice venues experiencing temporary closures and consumers spending more time at home. Furthermore, due to school closures and consumers working from home, the whole family was spending more time at home, ...

With consumers required to stay at home as much as possible in 2020, hypermarket chains that offered e-commerce saw a huge increase in demand. However, this led to large deficits in service and delivery, as the chains were not prepared for the flood ...

The lockdown measures leading to home seclusion benefited hypermarkets in 2020. First off, during lockdown hypermarkets experienced surging sales as consumers began stockpiling grocery products. Furthermore, there was a general increase in demand for...

Hypermarkets continued to suffer declining retail current value sales in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified the downwards trend established in the review period. The large-scale shopping environment of hypermarkets is gradually losing its ...

Although COVID-19 put strong pressure on the sales performance of hypermarkets, the channel overcome operating difficulties to register positive growth for 2020. It was supported by successful government efforts to control the virus as well as by the...

Over the review period, hypermarkets was a slow growing grocery retail format as consumers were increasingly shifting towards more frequent and smaller basket shops, whilst hypermarkets cater to consumers who prefer larger weekly shops. In 2020, ...

There were no hypermarkets in Japan at the end of the review period and there is no expectation of any opening in the market over the forecast period....

Over the course of the review period, the leading players in hypermarkets in Brazil consistently posted losses as their high operational costs and the somewhat muted enthusiasm for large-format grocery retailing among the country’s population counted...

The total number of hypermarket sites/outlets in Russia has been in decline since 2018 and the situation accelerated in 2020, due to a trend to reduce selling space to the level of supermarkets. However, new hypermarkets began to be built and opened ...