General Retailing Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

Retailing in Malaysia The COVID-19 pandemic continued to exert a very strong influence over Malaysia’s retailing industry during 2021. The most important factor to take into consideration is that a strict and extended quarantine lockdown was imposed upon the population in response to the third and f ...

Variety Stores in Singapore While economic uncertainty was the prevailing theme of 2020 and 2021, it is not entirely correct to associate variety stores with the lower socio-economic classes. Compared to mid-range outlets, retailers targeting low-income earners have struggled to survive due to movem ...

Variety Stores in Malaysia Variety stores registered its second consecutive year of negative sales growth in 2021 as the entire category struggled to recover from the requirement for all variety stores to remain closed throughout the quarantine lockdowns that were imposed upon the population of Mala ...

Retailing in Singapore The impact of restrictions was not consistent across all channels within retailing in Singapore. In 2021, strict movement restrictions resulted in a decline in retail salespeople. Malaysian staff members are commonplace in several retailing channels, including traditional groc ...

United Kingdom (UK) Valentine's Day 2022 - Analyzing Market, Trends, Consumer Attitudes and Major Players Summary United Kingdom (UK) Valentine's Day 2022 report forms part of GlobalData's Retail Occasions series, and offers a comprehensive insight into the consumer dynamics and spending habits of U ...

Variety Stores in Saudi Arabia The retail constant value sales (2021 prices) of variety stores rebounded strongly during 2021, exceeding their pre-pandemic (2019) peak. The relatively low pricing of most of the items sold by these stores is attractive to local consumers, particularly at a time when ...

Retailing in Saudi Arabia Having exhibited a double-digit decline in retail constant value sales (2021 prices) during 2020, retailing recovered only marginally in 2021. Non-grocery specialists were particularly hard hit by the pandemic during 2020, with their retail constant value sales plunging by ...

Retailing in Italy Overall, retailing in Italy in 2021 performed well. Many Italian consumers wanted to return to their normal lifestyles and were willing to spend and recover purchasing and consumption occasions lost during 2020 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and related lockdown and ot ...

Variety Stores in the Netherlands In 2020, when the pandemic first hit the Netherlands, variety stores were initially impacted by lockdown, as many players were forced to close their doors for several weeks. However, later in the year, many managed to recover, as they appealed to price-conscious con ...

Retailing in the Netherlands Even though there have been closures of non-essential retailers and people have been locked down at times over the last two years, retailing in the Netherlands as a whole has performed well during the pandemic, in both 2020 and 2021. Many Dutch consumers who were either ...

Variety Stores in Italy Variety stores was affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as the public health crisis and its economic ramifications prompted consumers in Italy to cut their spending. The job losses, economic uncertainty and reduced spending power of Italian consumers in the wake of ...

Retailing in Cambodia Cambodia’s retailing industry came under pressure during 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite political stability and the second highest vaccination among ASEAN countries, official COVID control measures and major changes in consumer behaviour in response to COVI ...

Variety Stores in the Philippines Variety stores was among the hardest hit retailers in the Philippines in 2020. During strict lockdown periods, variety stores were not considered as essential, and they therefore underwent store closures for a significant period. Furthermore, like department stores, ...

Retailing in Indonesia The COVID-19 vaccination programme accelerated in 2021 and there was also some loosening of movement restrictions in the first half of the year. However, the emergence of the delta variant and many people violating the lockdown imposed for the Eid holiday period led to skyrock ...

Variety Stores in Thailand Variety stores have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic and the economic shock that it has engendered, with their retail current value sales plunging by around half between 2019 and 2021. The stores operated by Daiso and MUJI – the dominant variety stores chains, ac ...

Retailing in Thailand Retailing current value sales in Thailand fell for the second year in a row during 2021, with the rate of decline accelerating into double digits. Having seen very few cases of COVID-19 during 2020, its incidence soared during mid-2021, leading to a new lockdown in July 2021 (t ...

Variety Stores in Peru There is no presence of this channel in Peru and the channel is not expected to gain a significant presence in the forecast period. Euromonitor International's Variety Stores in Peru report offers insight into key trends and developments driving the industry. The report examin ...

Retailing in the Philippines In 2021, COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the Philippines with different levels of quarantine measures being implemented from time to time. Retailing players within schools, offices, and commercial clusters have remained affected by varying mobility restrictions, whil ...

Retailing in Peru After a challenging and complicated year, retailing in Peru began to recover in 2021, as sales grew in relation to 2020. This was despite the fact that the pandemic had not yet been completely overcome. Moreover, while the vaccination campaign was progressing, over half the populat ...

Variety Stores in Indonesia Variety stores looked set to see value sales decline further in 2021. As in other retailing channels, the COVID-19 crisis has had a marked impact on the performance of variety stores, although it has been less severely affected than channels such as department stores. In ...

Retailing in Romania 2021 proved to be a watershed year for Romania’s retailing industry as new consumption patterns and purchasing habits emerged due to retailers and consumers alike adjusting to the harsh realities of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Romanian retailing industry was sev ...

Variety Stores in Romania Variety stores is an underdeveloped retail category in Romania and one which remains unfamiliar to the majority of consumers. Variety stores has never really developed as a retailing concept in a country with a strong tradition of highly specialised non-grocery retailers th ...

Retailing in Russia There was polarisation being observed within grocery retailing in Russia in 2021. On the one hand, there was increased consumer demand for high-quality groceries, a high level of service and modern technologies, as seen in Perekrestok, Magnit and Lenta outlets. On the other hand, ...

Retailing in Greece Having declined sharply during 2020, retailing current value sales rebounded during 2021 but remained below their 2019 peak. The brunt of the downturn during 2020 was borne by non-grocery specialists, such as apparel and footwear specialist retailers and department stores. As mos ...

Variety Stores in Greece The retail current value sales of variety stores fell by almost a fifth in 2020 and rebounded only partially during 2021. With temporary outlet closures at the beginning of the year due to the COVID-19 lockdown, sales fell dramatically. Variety stores also suffered from the ...