Lockdown restrictions led to a surge in unemployment. The economic impact of the pandemic was exacerbated by a sharp decline in the price of crude oil – Nigeria’s main export – which led to a decline in the foreign-exchange value of the naira, resulting in increased import costs. The early months of the pandemic also saw significant supply-chain...
In general, thanks to Vietnamese government efforts, Vietnam has controlled COVID-19 well. As such, the country did not have a long national lockdown (1-15 April). During the lockdown, all shops had to close except grocery retailers. Delivery service was allowed in almost all places, except Da Nang city. Retailing in Vietnam report...
Many products in tissue and hygiene are essential items and these areas generally witnessed little or no impact from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. Products such as sanitary protection, nappies/diapers/pants and adult incontinence are required on a regular, repeat basis. These essential products are driven by population statistics...
Whilst the Swedish government did not apply a universal lockdown or force retail outlets, foodservice establishments and businesses to close, a social distancing policy and more time spent at home, combined with a natural fear among many locals of catching COVID-19, as well as the almost complete shutdown of international (and domestic) tourism,...
The Polish government introduced lockdown measures when Coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged, including the closure of all non-essential offline stores between 15 March and 4 May 2020. In Poland, measures to restrict the number of clients allowed in stores (a limit of three customers per checkout and later one customer per 15 sq m) were implemented...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was a year of extremes – both in growth and contraction. Regarding store-based retailing, non-grocery specialists saw the largest contraction in value sales. Department stores fared the worst, due to such formats being enclosed spaces which attract a high number of customers, thus consumers avoided such spaces...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine period, almost all tissue categories saw spikes in volume sales as consumers reacted to the fear of getting sick. However, soon key categories which expected upward or at least stable trends suffered as consumers shifted their behaviour and reacted towards economic uncertainty and home seclusion,...
COVID-19 had a mixed impact on retail current value sales of tissue and hygiene in Cameroon during 2020, but the aggregate effect was positive, with the rate of growth in retail current value sales accelerating. Growth in demand for nappies/diapers/pants – which accounts for the bulk of retail current value sales in tissue and hygiene – was...
The overall impact of COVID-19 on sales in tissue and hygiene was slightly positive for a number of categories in 2020. The best performing categories were in retail tissue, however, where initial stockpiling was noted for essential and basic products such as toilet paper and paper towels in March 2020, but sales began to normalise in April. Tissue...
Current value sales of retail tissue and hygiene continued to record strong growth rates at the end of the review period due to rising inflation and a weakening of the Turkish lira which had been driving up the average unit price of many essential products in the market. This scenario had forced local consumers to prioritise their expenditure,...