The pandemic had a significant impact on retailing in Israel, with essential grocery retailers, especially discounters and traditional grocery retailers, and health-related channels such as drugstores/parapharmacies witnessing dynamic growth in 2020, as Israelis stocked up on supplies for home consumption during the various lockdowns. Retailing...
Lockdown as a result of the pandemic negatively affected most areas of retailing at the end of the review period. Mandated to close during the national lockdown retailers were hard hit. Furthermore, economic uncertainty and declining consumer disposable incomes led consumers to become more budget conscious, limiting their spending to essential...
Store-based retailing saw an impressive recovery in 2021 with this correlating with the strong GDP growth seen from the second quarter onwards. The Czech Republic saw life gradually return to normal from spring 2021 with there being no more lockdowns, while the roll out of the country’s vaccination programme in summer 2021 helped to rebuild...
In 2021, COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the Philippines with different levels of quarantine measures being implemented from time to time. Retailing players within schools, offices, and commercial clusters have remained affected by varying mobility restrictions, whilst face-to-face learning is suspended, office workers remain advised to...
After seeing higher than average growth in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, overall retailing maintained a similar current value performance in 2021. Grocery retailers performed particularly well in 2020. Life was more concentrated at home, with working from home, less travelling and less eating out, which resulted in increased demand for...
Even though there have been closures of non-essential retailers and people have been locked down at times over the last two years, retailing in the Netherlands as a whole has performed well during the pandemic, in both 2020 and 2021. Retailing in Netherlands report offers insight into key trends and developments driving the industry....
The recovery of retailing in 2021 was impressive but totally correlated to GDP growth of over 6% in France in the context of a return to a greater degree of normality since the spring of 2021, acceleration of the vaccination programme in August, ongoing strong growth of e-commerce and ongoing limited expenditure on services most notably travel...
Retailing continued to perform well and will retain solid growth in 2021 despite the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to significantly affect Austria. The economy continued to suffer under low tourism (especially from long-haul destinations), which led to reduced spending in non-essential retailing categories. Retailing in Austria report...
During 2020, retailing current value sales for the first time in the review period due a combination of to the economic shock of the pandemic and restrictions on movement, but they rebounded strongly in 2021. The competitive landscape in store-based retailing saw significant changes during the latter part of the review period, while supermarket...
Canadian retailing was forced to adapt quickly to the fast-changing realities imposed by Coronavirus (COVID-19) during 2020 and 2021. The major shift from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce retailing continued during early 2021, as many consumers did not feel safe visiting physical stores. In addition, consumers had become accustomed to the convenience...