Variety Stores
Market research on variety store retailing. Reports featuring standardised and cross-comparable data and analysis, including total market sizes, market and brand share data, with distribution and industry trends.
Categories
- Retailing
- Apparel and Footwear Specialist Retailers
- Convenience Stores
- Department Stores
- Direct Selling
- Electronics and Appliance Specialist Retailers
- Food and Drink Internet Retailing
- Grocery Retailers
- Health and Beauty Specialist Retailers
- Home and Garden Specialist Retailers
- Home shopping
- Hypermarkets
- Internet Retailing
- Leisure and Personal Goods Specialist Retailers
- Mixed Retailers
- Mobile Internet Retailing
- Modern Grocery Retailers
- Non-Grocery Retailers
- Non-Store Retailing
- Supermarkets
- Traditional Grocery Retailers
- Variety Stores
- Vending
- Warehouse Clubs
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Variety Stores in India
Mar 2019
Variety stores had a negligible presence in India in 2018. The likelihood of variety stores becoming a relevant channel in India remains low, as there is no need for these retail outlets, as demand is met by the strong presence of informal retailing ...
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Variety Stores in South Korea
Mar 2019
Variety stores keeps recording fast growth in South Korea as the players offer not only low prices but also quite-good-quality products. For example, the channel leader, Daiso, competes through its good-quality products. Its products sell for around ...
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Variety Stores in Austria
Mar 2019
Given the popularity of relatively new brands Tedi, Action and Flying Tiger Copenhagen and their continuing expansion activities, variety stores is expected to remain one of the fastest growing channels in store-based retailing in Austria over the ...
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Variety Stores in South Africa
Feb 2019
While most retailing channels saw slower value growth in 2018 variety stores actually saw stronger growth. This is because these stores focus on lower-income consumers with super low-priced strategies. Therefore, variety stores have benefited from ...
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Variety Stores in Canada
Feb 2019
The majority of Canadian consumers are value-conscious and trend towards careful and considered spending with fewer spontaneous purchases. Even though the economic environment was positive in 2018, Canadian wage growth was still not keeping up with ...
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Variety Stores in Nigeria
Feb 2019
Variety stores first emerged in Nigeria in 2015 as a new concept in mixed retailing via the opening of just one outlet under the Yudala banner. By 2018, there were three players in the channel. The recent entry of Miniso, which has introduced a ...
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Variety Stores in Spain
Feb 2019
Variety stores tend not to have large sales areas. In this regard, it is crucial for them to be located within city centres or neighbourhoods. The success of these stores depends very much on their location, as their proximity makes potential ...
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Variety Stores in Brazil
Feb 2019
The top-ranked player within variety stores, Lojas Americanas, has been fiercely investing in expanding its outlet network within Brazil. The company expects to take advantage of the country’s large territory and the fact that Brazil counts on more ...
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Variety Stores in France
Feb 2019
The success recipe of variety stores in France is a wide supply offered to consumers looking for good deals. In a context where internet retailing disrupts lifestyles and consumption habits, variety stores appear to pose the perfect opposition to the...
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Variety Stores in Greece
Feb 2019
The recession benefitted variety stores as most operators in this category stock economy merchandise, which attracted cash-strapped consumers. Even though Greece exited the Memoranda in 2018, consumer confidence is still low; thereby the climate ...
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Variety Stores in the Netherlands
Feb 2019
Variety stores remained under duress in 2018 overall, with distinctly divergent fortunes across the channel. The performance of the category continued to be affected by the sale by traditional domestic player Blokker Nederland BV of most of its ...
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Variety Stores in Japan
Feb 2019
Variety stores maintained a positive performance in 2018, with major brands such as Don Quijote, MUJI and 100 Yen Shop seeing ongoing growth. In an environment of persistent consumer price-sensitivity, variety stores such as Don Quijote and 100 Yen ...
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Variety Stores in Saudi Arabia
Jan 2019
The wide range of products offered at low prices by variety stores continued to attract local consumers in 2018. Even though mainstream retailers such as hypermarkets that often feature similar non-grocery items to variety stores, provide massive ...
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Variety Stores in Thailand
Jan 2019
Variety stores continued to record solid gains in value terms in 2018, although there was only one new outlet opened. This channel is popular with consumers for lifestyle products such as homewares, with this particularly true for fixed-price variety...
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Variety Stores in Morocco
Jan 2019
Variety stores in Morocco recorded fairly slow growth in current value terms at the end of the review period. It is worth mentioning that there is a lack of advertising and marketing by the leading players in variety stores. Unless such activity is ...
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Variety Stores in Denmark
Jan 2019
Rising consumer confidence is expected to boost demand for non-essential products, such as kitchenware, stationery and novelty products, which form the core offer of the leading players in variety stores. This is expected to drive significant growth ...
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Variety Stores in Israel
Jan 2019
The competition in the Israeli market is very low, resulting in prices being quite high and the product variety being limited. In such a competitive environment, variety stores are especially appealing, as they offer a wide variety of products at low...
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Variety Stores in Romania
Jan 2019
Although the main player in the channel, Studio Moderna, registered record high sales in 2018 and will likely surpass this in 2019, the variety store channel in Romania remained a niche. Its overall value sales are low when compared with other ...
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Variety Stores in Egypt
Jan 2019
Variety stores used to be a common channel with very competitive prices in Egypt, popular for the concept of “everything is 2.5”, meaning that the price of each product in the store was EGP2.5. However, other channels continued to evolve such as ...
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Variety Stores in the United Arab Emirates
Jan 2019
Whilst the United Arab Emirates traditionally features highly brand-conscious consumers, changing purchasing patterns and the availability of attractive products at variety stores benefited variety stores in the country, which accounted for more than...
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