Category: Retailing
Retailing market research reports by Euromonitor International
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Direct Selling in the United Kingdom
Direct Selling in the United Kingdom Amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, local consumers turned to direct selling in the UK as a way to augment their household earnings. Data released by the UK’s Direct Selling Association (DSA) revealed a significant surge in the number of people joining DTC (d ... Read More
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Inflation in Packaged Foods: Causes and Implications of Price Growth
Inflation in Packaged Foods: Causes and Implications of Price Growth Global packaged food sales are set to exceed USD3 trillion in 2024, with volumes growing over the forecast period. Even with inflationary pressures moderating, each grocery category (staple foods, dairy products and alternatives, s ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in the United Kingdom
Small Local Grocers in the United Kingdom Unlike larger store formats within grocery retailers, such as warehouse clubs, discounters, and hypermarkets, which have a strong focus on lower-priced products as well as the ability to limit the transfer of increased costs on to consumers, small local groc ... Read More
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Apparel and Footwear Specialists in the United Kingdom
Apparel and Footwear Specialists in the United Kingdom After a year of strong double-digit value growth in 2022 for apparel and footwear specialists in the UK, the channel maintained its positive trajectory in 2023 to outperform all other non-grocery retailers, except for leisure and personal goods ... Read More
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Hypermarkets in the United Kingdom
Hypermarkets in the United Kingdom Despite increased competition from discounters and warehouse clubs, which offer low-cost products appealing to the elevated number of price-sensitive consumers in 2023, hypermarkets in the UK maintained positive sales growth. Amid the cost-of-living crisis, high in ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialists in the United Kingdom
Health and Beauty Specialists in the United Kingdom In 2023, health and beauty specialists in the UK maintained its positive trajectory despite rising price sensitivity among consumers and a significant squeeze on disposable incomes. Pricing strategies, and discounted offers in particular, played an ... Read More
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Convenience Retailers in the United Kingdom
Convenience Retailers in the United Kingdom Despite price increases as a result of inflation that continued to drive the local population to adopt more conscious spending patterns in 2023, convenience retailers in the UK maintained a positive trajectory during the year as proximity and accessibility ... Read More
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Discounters in the United Kingdom
Discounters in the United Kingdom Due to high inflation towards the end of the review period, resulting in elevated prices of goods and services, consumers became increasingly price conscious, supporting the second consecutive year of value growth for discounters in the UK. As consumers continued to ... Read More
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Supermarkets in the United Kingdom
Supermarkets in the United Kingdom Supermarkets in the UK was the only grocery retail channel in 2022 to witness value sales decline, in a year characterised by soaring food prices, skyrocketing cost of utilities, high inflation, and a cost-of-living crisis, which all contributed to a significant de ... Read More
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Home Products Specialists in the United Kingdom
Home Products Specialists in the United Kingdom Home products specialists witnessed a surge in value sales in 2021, following declines due to pandemic-related restrictions. However, the channel did not return to 2019 sales levels until 2022. The cost-of-living crisis that began in 2022 and continued ... Read More
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Direct Selling in the US
Direct Selling in the US Direct selling continued its declining trend in both value terms at constant 2023 prices and in current value terms for the second year running in the US in 2023. The impressive growth posted by direct selling in 2020 has not been sustained. As a result, current value sales ... Read More
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General Merchandise Stores in the US
General Merchandise Stores in the US In 2023, although general merchandise stores in the US saw slight growth in current value terms, sales continued to decline at constant 2023 prices, driven by department stores. In December 2023, Arkhouse Management, and Brigade Capital Management together submit ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialists in the US
Health and Beauty Specialists in the US Health and beauty specialists in the US saw low current value growth in 2023, but maintained a similar decline to the previous year at constant 2023 prices. Current value growth for the pharmacies channel was almost flat in 2023. This marked the second year in ... Read More
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Home Products Specialists in the US
Home Products Specialists in the US In 2023, home products specialists (which encompasses homewares and home furnishing stores, home improvement and gardening stores, and pet shops and superstores) in the US saw value declines in both current terms and constant terms at 2023 prices. This was driven ... Read More
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Retail E-Commerce in the US
Retail E-Commerce in the US In 2022, as the rate of inflation in the US hit the highest level seen in decades, consumers were forced to look for ways to ration their spending. This had a significant impact on the retail industry, as US residents cut back on purchases of big-ticket items and other di ... Read More
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Retail in the US
Retail in the US In 2022, the annual rate of inflation in the US rose to the highest level recorded in 40 years. As a result, rising costs firmly supplanted the COVID-19 pandemic as US consumers’ foremost concern. With the prices of groceries and petrol rising significantly faster than the baseline ... Read More
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Convenience Retailers in the US
Convenience Retailers in the US As it did for many industries, the pandemic distorted the growth curve for convenience retailers. Following historically high current value growth rates in 2021 and 2022, sales slowed for convenience retailers (which encompasses convenience stores and forecourt retail ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in the US
Small Local Grocers in the US Small local grocers experienced positive growth in current value terms in the US in 2023, although it was one of the lower growth channels within grocery retailers, and decline continued in value terms at constant 2023 prices. Small local grocers in the US are not histo ... Read More
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Hypermarkets in the US
Hypermarkets in the US Hypermarkets experienced slower current value growth in the US in 2023 than in the previous year. This was largely a response to the still difficult inflationary environment in the country. Many US consumers continued to put off purchases of discretionary items in order to hav ... Read More
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Apparel and Footwear Specialists in the US
Apparel and Footwear Specialists in the US In 2023, current value growth in apparel and footwear specialists slowed for a second year in a row in the US, as demand continued to normalise relative to 2021, and consumers managed through another year of high inflation. This is a bit misleading, however ... Read More
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Discounters in the US
Discounters in the US Sales growth slowed for discounters in the US in current value terms in 2023, reflecting a general trend in the grocery retailers space, as inflation led consumers to volume buys and cheaper meal planning. Nonetheless, discounters recorded one of the highest rates of growth of ... Read More
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Supermarkets in the US
Supermarkets in the US Although supermarkets recorded positive growth in the US in current value terms in 2023, it posted near flat growth at constant 2023 prices. As such, inflation, rather than a higher number of units sold, was behind much of the value gain. In current terms, growth also slowed r ... Read More
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New Concepts in Retail
New Concepts in Retail Retailers’ constant experimentation with new concepts and formats helps to lay the groundwork for the industry’s future. For this reason, Euromonitor International profiles the most innovative new concepts in retail each year. This edition explores innovation across five key a ... Read More
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Discounters in Mexico
Discounters in Mexico In 2023, discounters saw growth in Mexico in current value terms; albeit at a slower pace compared with the previous year. During 2022, with inflation putting a strain on wallets, households became more price-conscious as their disposable incomes decreased, boosting the sales o ... Read More
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Hypermarkets in Mexico
Hypermarkets in Mexico Hypermarkets was the second most dynamic channel within grocery retailers in Mexico in current value terms in 2023, surpassed only by convenience retailers. The latter channel experienced strong outlet expansion in the review period, with even the pandemic hardly impacting the ... Read More
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