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This year, shoppers searched Walmart the most for online Black Friday deals. Online sales during Black Friday are expected to set a new record of $9 billion. Direct-to-consumer retailers have [...]

Retailers are stocking up on more goods for the holiday season compared to last year in a show of confidence in consumer demand despite the Delta variant and supply-chain disruptions, [...]

The Chinese market for grocery retailing is fragmented and dominated by local players. Among the foreign players, European and US retailers dominate thanks to a significant presence in hypermarkets. In [...]

The U.S. pet and pet supply store industry is an interesting field for commercial bankers to explore. Fueled by unprecedented growth in pet ownership, pet store chains and franchises have [...]

The word hypermarket has been used in a variety of ways in describing retail merchandise stores. In general a hypermarket is a large retail site that sells a wide variety [...]

The supermarket industry needs to embrace the call for revolution, to do nothing less than reinvent itself along lines that enable it to restructure its offerings and formats to reconnect [...]

It's an old story and one supermarket operators wish they didn't have to hear. Every few years a new format comes along, hoping to displace the supermarket in the heart [...]

Holiday Hypermarket announced a combination of the coming summer and flailing Euro has led to record bookings for holidays in Greece. According to a release, British travellers are not dissuaded [...]

The nation's warehouse clubs and supercenters saw sales decline for the first time this year during April, dropping 0.4%, to $31.6 billion. THE FOOD INSTITUTE estimates about 52.5% of those [...]

The 5.5% increase in sales reported by the nation's warehouse club & supercenter operators in 2011 was only slightly larger than the 5.2% gain in supermarket sales noted above. Of [...]

The audit and consulting firm Deloitte, quoting study by research firm Euromonitor International, has stated that sales of hypermarkets are expected to more than double to over Rs70,000 crore yearly [...]

During February, sales at the nation's warehouse clubs and supercenters rose 5% to $29.5 billion. This came on the heels of a 3% gain in January, bringing cumulative 2011 sales [...]

Essar Hypermarket is planning to open over 250 stores by Mar 2011 across the country to take the total number of stores to 776 from 520 at present. The company [...]

Byline: Dean Best French retail giant Auchan today (17 February) admitted that sales at its domestic hypermarkets fell by almost 2% during 2009. Auchan said like-for-like sales at the stores [...]

SAF U.S.A. announced that Winn-Dixie will utilize its SAF SuperStore forecasting and ordering software to create automatic orders. Winn-Dixie, a supermarket chain based in Jacksonville, Florida, will immediately begin planning [...]

French hypermarket sales have gone into decline, the latest data from research agency IRI has suggested. April hypermarket and supermarket sales were just over 4% down year-on-year, IRI found. The [...]

With consumers more carefully monitoring their spending habits last year, warehouse clubs and supercenters were apparently the beneficiaries as sales at these outlets rose nearly 10% during November over the [...]

The Census Bureau reported that warehouse clubs and supercenters recorded sales of $26.3 billion in October, the latest month for which data is available--7% more than in 2006. This brought [...]

Warehouse clubs and supercenters saw sales rise 10.9% during June (the latest month for which data is available) over the same month of 2006. This marks the third month this [...]

Virgin Megastores US has defied a tricky US music market to register a 5% increase in music sales in its final fiscal quarter of 2006. In addition, the company registered [...]

In the first look at 2007 data in this segment, sales at the nation's supercenters and warehouse clubs jumped another 10% in January versus a year earlier, far outpacing growth [...]

Sales at warehouse clubs and supercenters totaled $21.6 billion in February, with a 12.9% change from a year earlier. Club store sales from January to February 2006 saw an increase [...]

More than doubling the rate of increase in sales at traditional food and beverage stores, the nation's clubs and supercenters posted an 11.1% increase in sales over 2004 during the [...]

The popularity of warehouse clubs and supercenters continues to be apparent in the latest sales data from the Census Bureau. During April, sales at the alternative format retailers rose 11.3%, [...]

Supermarkets are still losing shoppers to supercenters, clubs and dollar stores, partly because consumers are shopping as entertainment. ACNielsen U.S.'s Channel Blurring study found that more shoppers from more households [...]

NEW YORK -- See you in September. That's the tune retailers find themselves singing, albeit mournfully, since June's heavily promotional environment wasn't enough to ring in the sales, and prospects [...]

International: Wal-Mart and Carrefour head Retail Intelligence's (RI) list of the world's top 100 retailers, with sales of $206.8bn and $64.8bn respectively. RI says that companies must think globally or [...]

The sun care category is posting healthy gains, according to numbers reported by Information Resources Inc. For the 52 weeks ending March 25, 2001, sun care sales increased 4.7 percent, [...]

The world's top 30 grocery retailers account for almost 10% of the global retail market, with Wal-Mart alone accounting for almost 2% of global retail sales. Eight of the top [...]

The retailer has some 8,900 stores serving 2 billion-plus customers PARIS -- With fiscal 2000 sales of 64.8 billion euros (about $57.9 billion), Carrefour SA is the world's second-largest retailer, [...]