The United States has the largest online grocery market in North America. Most grocers' primary distribution channel remains the shop. During the COVID-19 epidemic, online food sales increased considerably, with many shops immediately altering their offer…
As cat ownership is enjoying faster growth than other pets in Peruvian households, consumers are eager to have a wider variety of products from which to choose. For many years companies were focused on developing dog food as they had a larger consumer bas…
Peru has been experiencing a sustained increase in prices since 2021, which worsened in 2022 and will certainly remain high in 2023. This price increase is transversal to most consumer goods categories and services. Although Peru is a country that has loc…
The complete removal of all COVID-19 restrictions in Romania at the beginning of March 2022 resulted in an increasing number of local consumers relying less on the convenience of e-commerce and home deliveries, as they returned more frequently to shopping…
Financing the operations of small local grocers amidst rapidly growing operational expenses, and keeping pace with modern grocery retailers in terms of price, is difficult for many players. This was exacerbated from February 2022, when the Hungarian gover…
Retailers, manufacturers and consumers were only able to give a short sigh of relief after the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic eased. The country reopened totally from the lockdowns and various measures limiting shopping, travelling, and leisure activities,…
Grocery retailers continued to see dynamic growth in 2022, with the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions supporting economic activity and boosting consumer confidence. Furthermore, while many consumers remained price sensitive in 2022, spending was supported …
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 consu…
Small local grocers continued to record low current value growth in 2022, while outlet numbers recorded another year of decline, a trend already emerging prior to the pandemic, as the channel struggled to compete with modern outlets and rising urbanisatio…
Sales at grocery retailers slipped into decline in Middle East and Africa in 2022, having received a boost when the pandemic hit the region in 2020. Consumers in many countries were becoming more budget-conscious at the end of the historic period, given t…
After seeing two years of current value growth in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, decline was seen in 2022. Grocery retailers saw one of the strongest increases in sales in 2020, due to more time spent at home and thus higher food consumption at home. …
Overall retail sales grew in Sweden in 2022, benefiting from local society reopening following the impact of COVID-19 on consumers’ lives. In particular, retail offline benefited from greater mobility outside of the home as consumers enjoyed regular trips…
In-person sales of supermarkets have decreased due to an increasingly price-sensitive consumer preferring small local grocers and discounters. Moreover, e-commerce has consolidated as a key channel in the industry, regardless of the age of the consumers. …
Sales of cooking ingredients and meals are dominated by offline retailers, mainly driven by supermarkets, small local grocers and hypermarkets. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce has been thriving with increasing acceptance from broader c…
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 Finland is …
Unusual times were seen for retail in Finland starting from the beginning of COVID-19 in 2020. As people stayed at home more, travelled less, went out to eat less, and worked fewer hours in the office, unusually high growth was seen for grocery retailers,…
Due to the proliferation of small local grocers across rural and urban areas of South Africa, relatively low barriers to entry, and proximity to households, the channel witnessed steady revenue and outlet growth in 2022. The performance of small local gro…
After experiencing a 6.34% decline in real GDP in 2020 due to trading restrictions imposed to curb the pandemic, week-long civil unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, which affected over 1,700 retailers and resulted in up to ZAR25 billion in operating loss…