Department Stores Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis
The retail world for department stores is evolving. As developing countries are entering better economies, new department stores are being built. Because of the popularity of online shopping, department stores are building their websites to share the success.
Department stores are also changing their layout and inventory. In most department stores you can now find a variety of goods besides clothes, including: shoes, jewelry and accessories, cosmetics, glasses, children’s products, glasses, and even home goods. Some department stores are fitting in restaurants and food courts to push consumers to stay longer on premises.
Different regions in the world have majority in categories. Asia-Pacific dominates global retail sales, while North American dominates per-capita retail spending.
MarketResearch.com’s collection of market research studies on department stores in the consumer goods and retailing industry will help you stay competitive and grow in this healthy market. We offer a full array of studies on subjects ranging from department store’s layout and design to specific store segments in the market, including discount, specific inventory based clothing, and select stores. Also is a full library of country-specific studies for retail in different nations.
Department Stores Industry Research & Market Reports
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Retailing in Bolivia
... estimated -8% y-o-y. This has seen consumer price sensitivity sharpen, the adoption of more cautious buying behaviour, and a widespread search for lower prices, discounts and downtrading. The fact that most Bolivian households are informally ... Read More
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Mixed Retailers in Dominican Republic
... Department stores were closed for much of 2020, and suffered a significant drop in value sales as a result. In 2021, department stores registered higher value growth, as shopping patterns became more normal. Euromonitor International's ... Read More
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Retailing in Dominican Republic
... price sensitive, as the economic fallout of the pandemic affected consumer purchasing power. In addition, there was still restrictions in terms of shopping for most of 2021 and this also dampened value sales. Euromonitor International's ... Read More
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Retailing in Argentina
... rate is due to tough capital controls designed to keep the official peso rate in check. Controls include only allowing individuals to buy US$200 dollars a month at the official rate, a move adopted to ... Read More
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Department Stores in Argentina
... stores are losing favour among consumers, with shopping centres offer strong competition as they tend to offer a wide variety of products in one centre and often similar, if not the same, brands. Many Argentinians ... Read More
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Department Stores in Hong Kong, China
... the brands that benefited the most from sales to tourists. From 2020, the absence of mainland Chinese tourists due to COVID-19 resulted in a drastic decline in sales in department stores. Euromonitor International's Department Stores ... Read More
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Mixed Retailers in Algeria
... outlets were closed for several months of the year. Secondly consumers prioritised essential products due to declining purchasing power, as COVID-19 inflicted a heavy toll on the economy. There were also disruptions to supply, particularly ... Read More
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Retailing in Algeria
... is highly dependent on oil exports and this led to a devaluation of the dinar and a general increase in inflation. This in turn led to lower disposable incomes and resulted in an overall small ... Read More
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Department Stores in Egypt
... particularly badly affected by pandemic movement restrictions. Seeing as there are relatively few of them – less than 500 in the country – most consumers must travel further to visit a department store than they ... Read More
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Retailing in Egypt
... government’s campaign to digitalise payments is leading to a larger proportion of the population becoming open to new retail experiences, thus creating more room for new platforms to enter and gain share in the country. ... Read More
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Department Stores in Mexico
... The fact that the number of department stores expanded at a rapid pace during both 2020 and 2021 in spite of the pandemic was a major contributor to this. The main players, such as El ... Read More
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Retailing in Sweden
... more concentrated at home, with working from home, less travelling and less eating out, which resulted in increased demand for groceries, with some degree of stockpiling also seen. Even as the COVID-19 situation eased in ... Read More
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Department Stores in Sweden
... number of visitors to department stores to avoid infection. In addition, there was a general drop in demand for many of the more popular products sold in these outlets, such as luxury goods, designer apparel ... Read More
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Department Stores in Portugal
... Corte Inglés (in value sales terms). The retailer suffered a considerable impact in terms of physical store sales, which declined by double digits, while consumers notably shifted online which somewhat dampened the retailer’s loss of ... Read More
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Department Stores in the US
... particularly on categories like apparel and beauty products that had been largely neglected – returned in 2021 alongside in-store shopping. Both trends provided a much-needed boost for department store sales, with the pandemic having largely ... Read More
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Retailing in the US
... that forced retailers deemed “non-essential” to temporarily shutter stores proved relatively short-lived, with almost all bricks-and-mortar retail outlets across the US reopened to the public by late spring. Even so, many US consumers concerned about ... Read More
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Retailing in Ireland
... non-essential retail. In addition, citizens were required to stay at home except for essential reasons and not to travel further than 5km from their homes and travel restrictions with the UK were also imposed. Lockdown ... Read More
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Department Stores in Ireland
... to bricks-and-mortar stores, which was the result of pent-up demand and the benefit of the Christmas 2021 selling period. However, the year continued to be impacted by a lockdown for the first months and ongoing ... Read More
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Department Stores in Singapore
... for luxury goods and products with a premium or prestige positioning. Despite stocking a considerable selection of products ranging from home furnishings to apparel and footwear, beauty counters are a defining characteristic of department stores. ... Read More
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Department Stores in Malaysia
... permanently, with the retailer winding up its store-based operations in Malaysia completely during the early stages of the year. This follows the October 2020 entering into liquidation of Robinsons’ Singapore-based parent company. The retailer has ... Read More
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Department Stores in Saudi Arabia
... stores, such as Centrepoint and RedTag, performed better than their premium counterparts during 2020, as the economic shock of the pandemic made many local consumers more price sensitive. 2021 saw a degree of ‘revenge spending,’ ... Read More
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Retailing in Saudi Arabia
... with their retail constant value sales plunging by a quarter, as they were regarded as ‘non-essential’ and forced to close for an extended period during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. Even after they were allowed to ... Read More
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Department Stores in the Netherlands
... its shops in March and April and move almost exclusively to online sales during this period. While it then saw a sharp increase in sales in 2021, due to more lockdowns and store closures in ... Read More
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Retailing in Italy
... due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and related lockdown and other restrictions on retailing and consumer movement. Therefore, many retailing categories registered a more positive growth performance compared to 2020, although there were significant variations ... Read More
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Department Stores in Italy
... the government’s measures to cope with the public health crisis by minimising contact and the risk of infection among consumers. This led to lockdowns and home seclusion and the closure of physical department stores, with ... Read More
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