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Germany: Penny delivers groceries straight to your home
Discount Retail Chain Penny (owned by REWE Group) will deliver groceries directly to your home. Up until now, it has not been possible to...
Aug 18, 20211 min read


Netherlands: Pepco Group strong rebound in turnover thanks to growth strategy
Discount Retail Chain Pepco Group (owned by Steinhoff International and listed WSE: PCO) sums up the third financial quarter ended June...
Jul 17, 20217 min read


USA: 'Real pressure on supply chains': How major players are balancing costs and speed
After a year of temporary closures, rapid and extreme shifts in product demand, and tidal shifts to more digital and omnichannel...
Jul 8, 20213 min read


Austria: The antithesis to online shopping, discount retail, is booming
Constantly new stores and long queues in front of the shops: discount chains such as Action and Tedi are continuing their expansion...
Jun 19, 20214 min read


Belgium: MERE expands to Belgium
Discount retail chain MERE (family owned by Schneider) has announced its arrival in Belgium and wants to challenge Aldi and Lidl there....
Jun 14, 20213 min read


Research: The state of grocery in North America
The COVID-19 pandemic left no industry untouched. Grocers in North America, along with those in other regions of the world, served as...
Jun 10, 20218 min read


Sweden: Lidl Plus App goes better than expected
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Sweden's Plus App and customer club have gotten off to a better start than expected. "Compared to other...
Jun 9, 20212 min read


USA: Five Below Adding Associate-Assisted Self-Checkout to 250 Stores
Discount Retail Chain Five Below (publicly listed NYSE: FIVE) said it will add Associate Assisted Self-Checkout (ACO) to be in over 60%...
Jun 8, 20212 min read


Australia: ALDI celebrates five years in Western Australia as it reveals its latest expansion plans
Discount Retail Chain ALDI Australia (German family owned) celebrates its five-year anniversary in Western Australia, looking back at the...
Jun 8, 20212 min read


Netherlands: Lidl starts Dutch test with Eco-Score
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Netherlands (owned by German Schwarz Gruppe) is the first supermarket in the Netherlands to start a pilot with...
Jun 4, 20212 min read


Hungary: Lidl has reached the No.1 spot!
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Hungary (owned by the German Schwarz Gruppe) beat everyone in 2020 and irrespective of the fact whether one...
Jun 4, 20212 min read


China: Chinese discounter store Miniso is growing by one new store a day
Chinese discount variety retail chain Miniso (public compan traded at NYSE: MNSO) accelerated its expansion plan during the pandemic,...
Jun 4, 20211 min read

Research: European retailers reduce the price gap of their own brands with discounters
The latest research from International Private Label Consult (IPLC) identifies a continuing closing of the price gap between European...
May 27, 20211 min read


USA: why suppliers should be keeping a close watch on it over the next 12 months
Discount retail chain Lidl US (owned by German Schwarz Gruppe) announced its CEO, Johannes Fieber, will be leaving and will be replaced...
May 25, 20214 min read

Spain: Mercadona's "revolution" in private label
Spanish leading supermarket chain Mercadona’s new private label policy, replacing the former “inter-suppliers” by a much wider base of...
May 17, 20219 min read

Spain: Aldi expands its Masquefa logistics center by more than 13,000m2
Discount Retail Chain Aldi Spain (German family owned) will begin works during the first half of this year to expand its logistics...
May 14, 20211 min read


UK: MERE gearing up to open four stores
Discount Retail Chain MERE (owned by Russian Svetofor) plans to open its first UK location in a former store location of Nisa in Preston....
May 6, 20212 min read


Poland: this will be the year of the discounters
Sales in the discount channel in Poland will increase by as much as 7.9% in 2021, while in hypermarkets it will decrease by 4.8% this...
May 5, 20211 min read
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