Category: Food & Grocery Retailing
Food & Grocery Retailing market research reports by Euromonitor International
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Competitor Strategies in Hot Drinks
The hot drinks industry remains relatively stable, yet faces challenges such as climate change, inflation and trade wars. With price hikes inevitable, hot drinks companies are set to actively launch new product innovation and adopt premiumisation strategies to drive growth, while focusing on product ... Read More
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Where Consumers Shop for Staple Foods
Inflation is affecting consumers' choices in grocery channels, leading to changes aimed at preserving purchasing power. Discounters and warehouse clubs are becoming more prominent, with a rapid increase in the number of outlets. After years of decline, small local grocers are gaining traction due to ... Read More
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Supermarkets in South Africa
Supermarkets saw current value growth in Spain in 2024. The South African supermarkets landscape continues to grow, supported by diversified offerings targeting different market segments. However, the performance has been notable across budget friendly outlets, which have been attracting an increasi ... Read More
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Retail in South Africa
Retail saw current value growth in South Africa in 2024. The retail landscape remains challenging due to South African households struggling with a rising cost of living, persistently high unemployment rates, and currency depreciation. These conditions were worsened by a prolonged 15-year high inter ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in South Africa
Small local grocers saw current value growth in South Africa in 2024. Despite the evolution of mainstream modern grocery retail formats, South Africa's spaza shops continue to expand, playing a crucial role in township economies. These small, informal stores offer unmatched accessibility, often oper ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Germany
The slowdown in growth recorded by supermarkets in Germany in 2024 compared to the previous year was merely a reflection of lower inflation rates, particularly for groceries. When compared to discounters, the main other major grocery channel in Germany, supermarkets recorded a relative recovery in 2 ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in Germany
With stagnant current value sales in 2024, small local grocers in Germany recorded the lowest growth among all grocery retailing channels. The weak performance by small local grocers was also driven by the continued decline in outlet numbers during the year, with some stores closing amid challenging ... Read More
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Retail in Morocco
Retail in Morocco benefited from relatively stable socio-economic conditions in 2024, supported by steady GDP growth and government reforms. The new Investment Charter continued to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), bolstering industrial production and infrastructure development. Population gr ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Mexico
In 2024, supermarkets in Mexico saw a more dynamic rate of current value growth than was recorded in the previous year. With higher real salaries in 2024 and reduced inflationary pressure compared to 2023, some consumers turned to supermarkets in a bid to access a wider variety of brands and product ... Read More
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Where Consumers Shop for Soft Drinks
The global soft drinks industry is shifting towards value-led retail, functional innovation and digital experimentation. From small grocers to social commerce, brands must navigate a fragmented but fast-evolving retail environment, where affordability, technology and lifestyle alignment increasingly ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in Mexico
In 2024, small local grocers saw moderate current value growth in Mexico. The expansion of modern grocery retailers, driven by chains such as OXXO in convenience stores and Tiendas 3B in discounters, has been hampering the performance of small local grocers, which are commonly known as tienditas in ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Morocco
In 2024, supermarkets in Morocco operated in a more challenging competitive environment, primarily due to the aggressive expansion of discounters such as Kazyon and the growing focus on convenience retail formats. These developments are prompting major players to reassess their strategies as urban s ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Switzerland
Supermarkets saw a decline in 2024 both in current value terms and in terms of the number of outlets. The decline in value sales was due in part to the decreasing number of outlets with companies restructuring and closing less profitable outlets. However, it was also due to the higher level of price ... Read More
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Retail in Nigeria
In 2024, Nigeria's retail landscape was shaped by a complex interplay of macroeconomic headwinds and strategic adaptations by key players across all channels. The removal of the fuel subsidy, introduced as part of the government's broader economic reform programme, triggered sharp increases in fuel ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Nigeria
Supermarkets in Nigeria continued to build momentum in 2024, benefiting from a mix of expansion into tier cities, digital integration, and value-driven offerings such as loyalty schemes and private label. Retailers like Spar adopted conservative physical expansion strategies, instead focusing on par ... Read More
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Retail in Switzerland
Despite inflation rates dropping further and the economy showing signs of a recovery, retail continued to see only moderate growth in current value terms in 2024, similar to the growth seen in 2023. Consumers continued to limit their spending on non-essential items (with a few exceptions) due to fin ... Read More
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Retail E-Commerce in the United Arab Emirates
In 2024, retail e-commerce in the United Arab Emirates continued to benefit from the growing number of affluent and tech-savvy consumers showing a preference for online shopping and advanced supporting infrastructures that facilitate higher internet penetration and faster delivery services. The chan ... Read More
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Supermarkets in India
Supermarkets in India witnessed slowdowns in growth in its outlet count and value sales in 2024. This was on the back of weak consumer demand due to high food inflation, which led many consumers to prioritise essential purchases, and limit overall household consumption. With high inflation witnessed ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in the United Arab Emirates
Despite a positive performance in value sales terms, the number of small local grocers in the United Arab Emirates continued to decline in 2024. This was primarily due to rising urbanisation rates, increased demand for diversified offerings, and lack of competitiveness with modern grocery retailers ... Read More
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Supermarkets in the United Arab Emirates
Supermarkets in the United Arab Emirates continued to expand in 2024, supported by a steady increase in the population. In particular, there was steady growth in the number of outlets in peripheral urban areas and other emirates such as Al Ain, as an increasing number of operators looked to leverage ... Read More
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Retail in the United Arab Emirates
Despite lingering budget constraints among some consumers due to elevated living costs towards the end of the review period, thereby slowing overall growth in the local industry, retail in the United Arab Emirates continued to record a positive performance in 2024, driven by a steady population incr ... Read More
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Retail in Egypt
In 2024, Egypt’s retail landscape evolved within a complex macroeconomic environment shaped by persistent inflation, foreign currency shortages, and continued depreciation of the Egyptian Pound. These pressures were compounded by geopolitical instabilities, including disruptions to Suez Canal revenu ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Egypt
Supermarkets remained the largest modern grocery format in Egypt in 2024, owing to their widespread geographical coverage and ability to serve a broad spectrum of income groups. The format continues to benefit from shifting consumer preferences in urban areas, where more shoppers are turning to mode ... Read More
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Supermarkets in the United Kingdom
Supermarkets in the UK experienced sluggish growth in 2024, as economic pressures and shifting consumer habits continued to reshape the grocery retail landscape. While inflation levels continued to gradually ease following their peak in 2022, the cost-of-living crisis persisted at the end of the rev ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in the United Kingdom
Small local grocers in the UK faced a challenging 2024, with both sales and outlet numbers experiencing a decline, in line with the channel’s weak performance over the previous two years. Local consumers continued to shift towards larger grocery formats, discounters, and online grocery shopping, see ... Read More
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