Mexico

Direct selling has historically been more resistant to economic downturns, occasionally even posting sales gains in tough economic times. A struggling economy often means job losses and financial struggles for individuals and families, and thus ...

Decreased foot traffic in convenience stores as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic decreased the retail value growth that the channel had recorded in recent years, as well as decelerating the rapid expansion of the channel’s top players. The COVID-19 ...

Warehouse clubs saw the largest sales growth in 2020 with no store-based retailing channel in Mexico performing better. In a year unlike any other, retailers in the channel were largely able to capitalise on the explosive shopping trends that ...

Impulse purchases of non-essential items drive much of the vending industry’s revenue. As Mexico introduced lockdown at the end of March 2020, these purchases declined, leading to losses for the industry. Food and beverages vending machine sales ...

The impact of COVID-19 was felt in contradictory ways across different sectors of the Mexican health and beauty specialist retailers industry, largely due to differing essential business classifications. Drugstores and parapharmacies as well as ...

At the end of March 2020 lockdown was imposed in Mexico to curb the spread of COVID-19 and restaurants found themselves unable to serve customers in person. Furthermore, many consumers were wary of leaving their homes and entering restaurants to ...

Lockdowns, quarantines, and fears around contracting COVID-19 forced many individuals to stay at home. As a result, the convenience of e-commerce became especially attractive to an increasing number of Mexican consumers during 2020. The pandemic led ...

The rapid growth of modern grocery retail channels hampered the performance of traditional grocery retailers over the review period. Nevertheless, traditional grocery retailers remained the largest channel within grocery retailers. Independent small ...

Department stores was hard hit by the pandemic in Mexico in 2020 as the government introduced a lockdown at the end of March to curb the transmittance of COVID-19. Department stores were deemed to be non-essential businesses from the start of ...

Variety stores continued to see current value growth in 2020, although this was much slower than in previous years. Most variety stores in Mexico remained closed during the lockdown in March and April and subsequently these retailers’ e-commerce ...

Discounters managed to extend its lead over hypermarkets to maintain its position as the leading channel within grocery retailing in 2020 with regard to retail value sales. Discounters became the leading channel within modern grocery retailers in ...

Home and garden specialist retailers remained an important retail channel during 2020, as many operators within the channel were able to increase their sales, despite other store-based channels struggling due to COVID-19. However, although home and ...

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 ...

Electronics and appliance specialist retailers saw decreased retail value sales growth in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic causing investments in new stores in this channel to be postponed. Only Xiaomi opened a new store in Guadalajara in ...

Grocery shopping has been the category in Mexico most resistant to e-commerce. While companies such as Wal-Mart de México SAB de CV has invested in e-commerce for a number of years, Mexican consumers remained cautious of using its platforms for ...

The COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in Mexico in February 2020, resulting in the government attempting to curb the spread of the disease through a lockdown and subsequently all non-essential businesses were closed in April and May, which had a large ...

The pandemic-induced lockdown and consequent closure of all non-essential stores in Mexico between the end of March and the end of May 2020 and again later in the year ensured that most apparel and footwear specialist retailers’ in-store sales ...

As fear regarding the COVID-19 pandemic began to sink in and Mexicans saw surrounding countries start to go into lockdown, consumers started stocking piling food and other household essentials at the end of the first quarter of 2020. Early on, this ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the nation in 2020, many Mexican consumers actively sought to avoid shopping in brick-and-mortar stores as much as possible in order to minimise the risk of infecting themselves and others with the coronavirus. ...

Sales of retail tissue recorded 9% current value growth in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic leading to a heightened interest in health and hygiene, boosting sales. Retail tissues also saw stockpiling that bolstered sales in Q1 of 2020, with sales ...