Kantar’s latest grocery market figures show year-on-year UK supermarket sales grew by the fastest rate in over a decade during the past 12 weeks – increasing by 7.6%. March was the biggest month of grocery sales ever recorded, with sales soaring 20.6% year-on-year. This was driven ...

Welcome to today’s briefing on the effects of Coronavirus on the retail landscape in Europe and EMEA. This will be the last daily update for the time being as going forward our team will focus instead on identifying specific trends and responding to developments in key markets as and when ...

Welcome to today’s briefing on the effects of Coronavirus on the retail landscape in Europe and EMEA. While in no way definitive, we hope to ensure our clients are kept as informed as possible on new initiatives, developments and trends emerging as this crisis unfolds. Europe UK: From ...

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Hot and Timely Topics Webinar: Amazon 2020 - The Grocery Edition

5 Mar 2020, 01:00 PM EST

Amazon is pressing forward to determine how to integrate and expand its grocery offer to become a leading “go-to” grocer in the U.S. Its various online services for both fresh and shelf stable grocery, as well as its plans to expand in brick & mortar are key pieces to its grocery strategy in 2020. In this webinar, we will: Evaluate the Amazon grocery offer and key strategies the retailer will employ to strengthen its leadership position Discover how shoppers are thinking ...

There's no doubt that the current epidemic outbreak has deeply influenced consumers' daily life, writes Jason Yu, Managing Director, Greater China. In addition to the impact on food and transportation, it's estimated that changes will also be witnessed in consumers' purchase behaviour across ...

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Metro closed its first quarter of 2020 on December 21, 2019 with 1.3% sales growth versus Q1 2019, amounting to CAD4.0 billion. These sales incorporate same-store food sales of 1.4% and food basket inflation of 2.0%. Accounting for the shift in Christmas sales, same store food sales would have ...

Kantar, in collaboration with MediaCom China, has published the whitepaper Decoding Desire in the China Luxury Social Ecosystem. A large-scale research project was undertaken to unlock the formula luxury brands need to activate their social media effectively from an audience-first approach. ...

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With unprecedented pressures on online fulfilment, and consumers leveraging multiple channels and alternative models to obtain what they need, retailers and brands are seeking new ways to reach consumers. Exposing flaws in grocery ecommerce Demand for grocery deliveries has overwhelmed supermarkets’ ...

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Europe In its daily update on COVID-19, the World Health Organization said it was “encouraged” by lower rates of new infections in Italy and a stabilisation in mortality in Spain. Regional director Hans Kluge said this may indicate peaks will soon be reached in some countries, although ...

Retailing in the Week Ahead, Week 13 Now that most of the world is in some form of ‘home lockdown’, we all need to learn new ways of exercising and staying fit. For most of us, though, it currently means rapidly upgrading our video conferencing skills using new platforms. For food ...

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Amazon Go Grocery’s impact on retail

Kantar has visited Amazon’s new ‘Go Grocery’ concept that opened in Seattle last week. Here, we give our first impressions and consider what the store means for Amazon’s grocery ambitions and the wider future of supermarket retail.

While ecommerce has offered higher-than-average growth for several years, it has never been a high priority for brands or retailers in the Middle East due to varied levels of adoption across categories and concerns about return on investment. However, the tragic COVID-19 developments over the ...

Welcome to today’s briefing on the effects of Coronavirus on the retail landscape in Europe and EMEA. While in no way definitive, we hope to ensure our clients are kept as informed as possible on new initiatives, developments and trends emerging as this crisis unfolds. Europe The European ...

What has happened to sales in supermarkets? Are patterns emerging in different countries across the world? And what should we expect to see next, when it comes to retail and consumption habits? Fraser McKevitt speaks to Jason Yu and Ray Gaul to get perspectives from China, Europe, and the UK, ...

Welcome to today’s briefing on the effects of Coronavirus on the retail landscape in Europe and EMEA. While in no way definitive, we hope to ensure our clients are kept as informed as possible on new initiatives, developments and trends emerging as this crisis unfolds. Europe France: ...

Welcome to today’s briefing on the effects of Coronavirus on the retail landscape in Europe and EMEA. While in no way definitive, we hope to ensure our clients are kept as informed as possible on new initiatives, developments and trends emerging as this crisis unfolds. Europe UK: Overnight, ...