Market research on the retailing industry. Our reports feature a ...
Market research on the retailing industry. Our reports feature a wealth of standardised and cross-comparable statistics including total market sizes, market share and brand share data, distribution and industry trends.
After posting a steep decline in current value terms in 2020, traditional grocery retailers saw sales rebound strongly in 2021. As concerns about potential exposure to COVID-19 receded with the rollout of vaccines and a drop in community transmission…
Traditional grocery retailers saw a recovery in sales growth in 2021. The easing of COVID-19 related restrictions, such as the lifting of tight controls on the number of occupants in-store at any one time and other social distancing measures, helped…
Financing the operations of traditional grocery retailers amidst rapidly growing operational expenses and keeping pace with modern grocery retailers in terms of price remains difficult for many players, and this was especially the case during…
Traditional grocery retailers in Norway will experience double-digit current retail value growth for the second year in the row, showcasing the best performance of all grocery retailers during the pandemic. However, increasing sales in modern grocery…
Almost three-quarters of the category’s value sales are accounted for by Alko. As a result, factors that affect the company have a crucial impact on the overall channel. With a few exceptions, Alko, the state-owned retailer has the exclusive right to…
Traditional grocery retailers remained the largest grocery channels in 2021, accounting for well over half of value sales. However, while current value sales registered a double-digit increase in 2021, this growth was mainly due to soaring inflation…
Traditional grocery retailers did not benefit from the COVID-19 pandemic despite the higher demand for groceries seen in 2020 as competition from both convenience stores and food e-commerce, in both 2020 and 2021, resulted in a slightly negative…
During the pandemic, the number of traditional grocery retailers decreased slightly, and retail value sales growth was negative. Conversely, during 2021 traditional grocery retailers registered a rise in retail value sales growth, as consumers…
With more than 600,000 outlets nationwide in 2021, traditional grocery retailers dominate grocery retail in Nigeria. However, this figure declined throughout the review period, due in large part to the expansion of modern grocery retail outlets, and…
High maturity and growing competition from a variety of channels, such as variety stores and convenience stores, exerted pressure on traditional grocery retailers prior to the onset of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. However, the exigencies of…
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many traditional grocery retailers recorded declining demand in 2020 and 2021. Many consumers opted to switch to shopping in larger grocery store formats, such as supermarkets and hypermarkets, where they could…
The imposition of COVID-19 related restrictions, the strong desire to shop in local, quieter outlets and the enthusiasm to support local businesses influenced consumers’ purchasing decisions in Ireland for a significant proportion of 2021. These…
Traditional grocery retailers in China includes a broad range of outlet types, which range from mom-and-pop stores to wet markets. Wet markets were hit very hard by a close link to the initial outbreak of COVID-19. Some of the earliest reported cases…
Like in the modern grocery retailing channels, traditional grocery retailers will see a significant drop in value sales in 2021 after its peak in 2020 - the year in which sales were most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. During 2020, consumers…
Traditional grocery retailers gained from the pandemic lockdowns, as with people’s movements being restricted, they shopped in local neighbourhood stores. Essentially COVID-19 had the effect of boosting the growing trend for shopping locally and…
Performance was muted for traditional grocery retailers in 2021. Inflation was relatively high in 2021, and while traditional grocery retailers registered an increase in current sales, there was a slight fall in constant value sales. In 2021,…
Traditional grocery retailing continues to be predominant in grocery channel, but its share has been strongly declining over historic period. The channel has also performed worse than modern grocery retailers during the pandemic with many consumers…
Traditional formats remained very strong in grocery retailing in 2021, although traditional grocery retailers’ value share continued to be ceded to modern grocery retailers. Changing consumer shopping habits during the pandemic accelerated a shift…
Traditional grocery retailers continued to benefit from the ongoing COVID-19 situation in 2021 and the measures being taken to contain it. Many consumers turned towards shops in close proximity to their homes to get daily supplies of groceries,…
Traditional grocery retailers in Taiwan is mainly comprised of highly fragmented traditional markets, night markets, and independent grocery retailers. These traditional markets are called wet markets and they usually have high traffic, with…