In 2020, supermarkets saw dynamic growth due to COVID-19. During the pandemic, supermarkets benefited from COVID-19-related restrictions as people ate at home more often.
In September 2021, the United Arab Emirates saw the arrival of its first AI-powered fully automated store. Located in Mall of the Emirates, Dubai, Majid Al Futtaim’s Carrefour City+ store allows consumers to choose from a range of over 1,300 grocery items.
The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on the increasing importance of grocery retailers having an omnichannel approach. The United Arab Emirates appears to be a modern paradox, with consumers having a love of both shopping centres and the digital world.
Majid Al Futtaim announced in 2021 it is teaming up with Russian tech giant Yandex to test autonomous technology solutions, which could enhance Carrefour’s last-mile delivery capabilities in the United Arab Emirates. This will make Carrefour the first omnichannel retailer to use self-driving robots for online order delivery in the region.
In 2021, Spinneys launched its online store, complete with recipes and lifestyle reads. The online service soon expanded to neighbourhoods beyond the major hubs, and later in 2021 expanded to Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Fujairah and Al Ain.
In 2021, the grocery store Spinneys opened a new type of store in Dubai as part of the company’s “Let’s Do Better Together” strategy. Located in the Layan community, the new store allows customers to reduce waste through its “Refill Shop”, using their own containers brought from home.
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Supermarkets are chained or independent retail outlets with a selling space of between 400 and 2,500 square metres and with a primary focus on selling food/beverages/tobacco and other groceries. Supermarkets may also sell a selection of non-groceries, but the product mix is skewed towards grocery items. Example brands include Casino, Kroger, and Tesco. Exception: In some markets, primarily the US, Australia and Hong Kong, there are grocery retailer brands that operate outlets with a selling space of over 2,500 square metres, but offer only a very limited range of non-grocery merchandise or none at all. These brands are included in Supermarkets.
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