Small Local Grocers

Small local grocers only accounts for a negligible share of overall value sales within grocery retailers. Like most other grocery retail channels, small local grocers saw exceptional current value growth in 2020 in the first year of the pandemic, as…

Like convenience stores, small local grocers witnessed a significant upturn in value sales in 2020, as Italian consumers were encouraged to shop locally as much as possible to limit contact with others and minimise the spread of COVID-19. Locality…

Small local grocers in China includes a broad range of outlet types, which range from mom-and-pop stores to wet markets. After a better year in 2021, 2022 proved to be another tough year for China’s small local grocers, as the spread of the Omicron…

Many consumers in Canada appear to sympathise with the struggles facing small local grocers in the country and continued to spend part of their food budget at independently owned and operated stores. Nonetheless, despite this support due to high…

Small local grocers generally benefited from the greater focus of consumers on proximity when shopping for groceries during the pandemic. Many of these outlets are located in close proximity to local consumers’ homes and workplaces, while for many,…

At a macro level, it can be seen that changes in shopper behaviour have continued, and with the easing of the pandemic, a move back to pre-COVID-19 trends is being seen. From a top-line perspective, there has been a move back to supermarkets for…

 Small local grocers continued to see a strong contraction in outlet numbers while struggling to compete with other store formats. Due to rising costs for retailers and ongoing inflations, consumer price points needed to rise.

Small local grocers remained the smallest grocery retail channel in Finland in 2022. Its significance within grocery retailers has been on a slow decline for a long time, with no signs that this trend will suddenly change. Grocery retailing in…

Small local grocers mainly includes small independent traditional grocery stores (a structurally waning, disparate, large segment, due to the competition from chained convenience stores), and organic specialist stores. After years of strong growth,…

Despite the underlying growth of larger supermarkets, hypermarkets and e-commerce specialists, local kiosks and small local groceries remain a firm favourite in Egypt, especially for impulse and convenience purchases. Poor public transport…

Not only do small local grocers continue to dominate sales in grocery retailing in India, but this channel also managed to continue recording positive growth rates throughout the pandemic. This channel offered consumers ease of accessibility for…

The consumption habits of Taiwanese changed during the pandemic, with purchases of fresh groceries and hot food items from traditional wet/food markets (which mainly comprise the majority of small local grocers in the country) switching to modern…

The expansion of modern grocery retail channels continued to hamper the performance of small local grocers in 2022, with retail sales suffering a decline in constant value terms. This came on the back of a far more significant decrease in 2021, when…

Despite its widespread presence as a grocery retail format in Brazil, small local grocers struggled during the pandemic, due to increasing competition from channels such as convenience stores and smaller supermarkets that were also present in local…

Small local grocers (traditional grocers) is one retailing channel which suffered during the era of COVID-19, thus the lifting of pandemic restrictions in 2022 heralded good news for these stores and the start of recovery. Indeed, in 2021, Vietnam…

After the good performance seen in 2020, sales in small local grocers resumed their decline in current value terms in 2021 and 2022, which was a trend that was already occurring before the emergence of COVID-19. During the first year of the pandemic,…

Neighbourhood grocery stores offer closeness and convenience, since their portfolio is small. However, small local grocers’ ability to play with prices and maintain margins is limited. Given the inexorable growth in prices in the last year of the…

Several factors contributed to the poor performance of small local grocers in 2022. A full reporting period without lockdown restrictions meant that hospitality venues saw more consumers return to pubs and restaurants, meaning that more meals were…

Sales of small local grocers in 2022 were driven by rising unit prices, as increasing costs had to be reflected in final retail prices. However, small local grocers were unable to compete with large retail chains in terms of offering competitive…

Increasing gas prices in 2022 have significantly benefited small local grocers in Greece in terms of retail current value sales, as people tend to prefer nearby, neighbourhood shops that they can easily visit on foot to buy necessary goods. Further,…