Category: Retailing
Europe Retailing
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Food and Drink E-Commerce in the Czech Republic
... switched to shopping online for food and drink to avoid visiting retail facilities. The channel also benefited from the surge in first-time online grocery shoppers, with some people either being unwilling or unable to shop ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialist Retailers in the Czech Republic
... growing demand for personal care products, OTC medicine, vitamins, and hand sanitisers, among other products. Customers have become more conscious of the need to take preventative measures with regard to their health since the start ... Read More
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Homeshopping in the Czech Republic
... consumers who had previously abandoned homeshopping returned to ordering goods via mail or telephone in 2020 and 2021. This was true mainly for the older generations who are not so familiar with online shopping and ... Read More
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Retailing in Slovenia
... the pandemic played a key role in boosting value sales, as did an element of pent-up spending, as consumers splurged on items such as beauty products now that society was opened up once again. Higher ... Read More
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Apparel and Footwear Specialist Retailers in Slovenia
... 2021, with outlets opening up again, value sales registered a double-digit value growth. All the same, with the pandemic still lingering, and a significant proportion of people continuing to work from home, which led to ... Read More
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Mobile E-Commerce (Goods) in Slovenia
... for half of value sales of overall e-commerce in 2021, whereas at the beginning of the review period, it only accounted for just over a quarter. The growth is being supported by the increased ownership ... Read More
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Department Stores in the Czech Republic
... while department stores also continued to suffer from the shift towards e-commerce. Meanwhile, there are also other retailing channels that are able to offer a wider range of products under one roof at more affordable ... Read More
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Traditional Grocery Retailers in Slovenia
... registered a small recovery and there was an increase in current value sales. This recovery was largely due to the recovery of sales through kiosks, as with people out and about more, they frequented kiosks ... Read More
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E-Commerce (Goods) in Estonia
... quarter of 2021 drove many more consumers than usual online. This widened the online consumer base, but even after the relaxation of lockdown measures, consumers have stayed, partly because of the convenience of the channel, ... Read More
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Apparel and Footwear Specialist Retailers in North Macedonia
... because outlets were closed for a significant portion of the year and when outlets did reopen, there was little demand. Since consumers were spending a lot of time at home (during both work and leisure ... Read More
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Mixed Retailers in Estonia
... previous year, however. Department stores, the largest part of the channel in value terms, has been under rising competitive threat from other sales channels. Consumers have increasingly switched to other brick and mortar channels to ... Read More
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Mixed Retailers in North Macedonia
... 2020 - a reflection of the growing number of consumers concerned about their household spending due to the economic fallout of COVID-19. Studio Moderna was also slow in reacting to consumers’ differing needs, though it ... Read More
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Modern Grocery Retailers in North Macedonia
... grocery retailing players are modern grocery retailers (namely KAM and Tinex). Amongst the most popular features are the greater level of convenience modern grocery retailers offer, the larger and more pleasant selling spaces, and the ... Read More
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Traditional Grocery Retailers in North Macedonia
... retailers which benefitting from being able to adapt more easily to the mandatory COVID-19 restrictions. For most traditional grocery outlets, shoppers were obliged to queue outside before entering as many outlets are small and could ... Read More
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Traditional Grocery Retailers in Estonia
... at any one time and other social distancing measures, helped these outlets attract more customers. Moreover, the lingering consumer habit of shopping in stores near one’s home, formed during the pandemic, also benefitted the channel ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialist Retailers in Estonia
... of outlets in 2020 and 2021 is part of this, with smaller independent pharmacies hit especially hard by the events of the pandemic. Vitamins and dietary supplements specialist retailers also saw a fall in outlet ... Read More
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E-Commerce (Goods) in North Macedonia
... of consumers shopped online for the first time or shopped online more frequently during the pandemic, with most demonstrating eagerness to continue this habit even when COVID-19 is less of a threat. This is leading ... Read More
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Warehouse Clubs in Poland
... Poland report offers insight into key trends and developments driving the industry. The report examines all retail channels to provide sector insight. Channels include hypermarkets, supermarkets, discounters, convenience stores, mixed retailers, health and beauty retailers, ... Read More
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Retailing in Estonia
... The ongoing restrictions on in-store numbers, social gatherings, social distancing in work and education in the first half of the year continued to put pressure on non-grocery specialist retailers, but private consumption has been resilient ... Read More
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Modern Grocery Retailers in Estonia
... evolving consumer demands in a flexible and responsive way. In addition, consumers continuing to work from home where possible meant that more consumers were eating more of their meals at home, driving up demand for ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialist Retailers in North Macedonia
... of 2020. This is a good performance for a non-grocery retailer (with all other store-based non-grocery retailing channel recording double-digit decline in 2020). This is because many of the channel’s outlets were considered essential and ... Read More
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Mobile E-Commerce (Goods) in North Macedonia
... the increased use of mobile technology for online purchases. Increased smartphone ownership and the growing number of online stores (by both grocery and non-grocery players) with a well-developed mobile interface are driving value growth. Multichannel ... Read More
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Retailing in North Macedonia
... were no significant lockdowns in this year and, with COVID-19 having less impact on the country, economic conditions improved, leading to greater purchasing power for consumers. The strong retailing performance in 2021 is largely thanks ... Read More
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Variety Stores in Poland
... with restrictions driven by the emergence of the pandemic. Nevertheless, despite further restrictions in the first half of 2021, variety stores recorded a return to stronger growth during the year in line with the reopening ... Read More
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Mixed Retailers in Latvia
... pre-pandemic levels, and broadly speaking the whole category has been in decline in both constant and current value terms over the review period; anticipated sales in 2021 align with this, despite the positive growth driven ... Read More
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