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On May 20, 2019, Ascena Retail Group announced the closure of its Dressbarn business.
Carrefour SA is a French multinational retailer of groceries and general merchandise that operates a network of hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores, cash-and-carry outlets and e-commerce websites.
Aldi and Lidl have brought major disruption to the UK grocery market — and they could be on course to add another £9 billion of combined sales over the next five years. In this report, we review five measures major UK grocery retailers have taken to fight Aldi and Lidl, and how successful each has been.
This report covers European retailing, with a focus on the UK, Germany and France. Structural trends challenging middleground legacy retailers include an ongoing attrition of market share to online and discount channels.
Tesco reported FY19 total sales of £63.9 billion, up 11.0% year over year on a constant-currency basis (increasing 11.2% as reported) and missing the consensus estimate of €64.5 billion recorded by StreetAccount.
This report discusses notable US retail bankruptcies in 2017-2018 and examines key factors that led retailers to collapse.
Five Below reported 4Q18 revenues, comps and EPS that beat consensus estimates. 2019 revenue and EPS guidance is below consensus, with EPS hurt by $0.10 from a rule change for lease accounting.
Ollie’s 4Q18 results beat consensus by a penny but missed on revenues on comps. 2019 guidance calls for revenues up 16%–17% and EPS up 15%–18%, but both range fell below consensus estimates.
St. Patrick’s Day captures a lot of attention, but its retail impact is small compared to other holidays: Consumers plan to spend $40 on average for St. Patrick’s Day this year, less than a quarter their planned $162 Valentine’s Day spend.
Loblaw Cos. Ltd. is a Canada-based retailer that operates under five divisions: Market, Drug, Discount, Financial and Joe Fresh. The Market division includes the grocery-focused store banners Loblaws, Provigo and Zehrs, and offers food, home and lifestyle products.
All regions posted sales and traffic declines in January compared to the same period last year. The Midwest registered the largest year-over-year decline in traffic of all regions at 17.5%, owing to severe weather conditions. With warmer and wetter conditions, the South experienced the lowest decline, at 5.8%. The Midwest also recorded the largest year-over-year in-store sales decline among all regions, down 16.8%, whereas the West, which enjoyed warmer and drier conditions, reported the smallest decline, down 1.4%.
As store closures resume in earnest in 2019, dollar stores are bucking the trend, expanding rapidly. Look for technology to be a deciding factor in the coming years as brick and mortar companies integrate online and offline offerings.
Our measure of core retail sales is non-seasonally-adjusted sales excluding gasoline and automobiles. This metric increased by just 1.0% year over year in December, slowing dramatically from the growth in preceding months, including a 5.2% uplift in November. This resulted in total holiday-period sales coming in at $693 billion, up by just 2.9% year over year.
Get ready for better stores and better retailing. We expect 2019 to be a year of reinvention — and not just for the retail sector as a whole, but for physical stores in particular. As we outline over the following pages, we anticipate that the year will be marked by spectacular retail, fast retail and smart retail.
Aldi is America’s eighth-biggest grocery retailer by estimated 2018 revenues, according to Euromonitor International. It has grown revenues by an estimated CAGR of 12.7% over the past five years. After a shaky start in the U.S. market, Lidl has diversified into a range of store formats. Lidl is continuing to open stores at a steady pace, and its recent acquisition of the 27-strong Best Market Chain suggests a renewed impetus to grow its footprint in the U.S.
