This report looks at emerging grocery retail formats across the six GCC countries. It covers five formats: discount, neighbourhood convenience, ecommerce and quick commerce, specialisation and expat-targeted concepts. It defines what the format means in a GCC context, identifies the operators and sizes the sector by sales, store count and share of the grocery market across countries and brands.
Table of contents:
1) The GCC grocery retail market
- Market size by country
- The dominance of large-format and destination stores
- Where the innovation is happening now
- The factors driving it: cost of living, domestic manufacturing, government policy, urban growth and saturation
2) Discount grocery retail
- Definition and formats
- Types of discounters and the whitespace between them
- Who are the discount operators
- The market by country, retailer and store count
- Forecast to 2030
- Operator profiles: VIVA, Dukan, SAVA, Mark & Save, GALA
- Discount pharmacy
3) Neighbourhood convenience
- Definition and formats
- The market by country
- The future of neighbourhood convience
- Stores in high-footfall locations: metro stations, forecourts, hotels and campuses
- Stores in residential areas: basic and upmarket chains
- Operator profiles: Trolley, Meed, Al Hatab, allday, Dash, Quickerr, SWFT, MAAR
- Checkout-free stores
4) Ecommerce and quick commerce
- Market size by country
- Delivery apps and market leadership
- Consolidation: acquisitions, exits and failures
- Future of ecommerce and qcommerce
- Proprietary apps operated by retailers
- Types of fulfilment and dark store models
- Dark store markets by country
5) Specialisation and niche formats
- Types of specialisation
- Premium grocery: the market, operators and outlook
- Operator profiles: Spinneys, Grandiose, Carrefour Premium
- Hybrid café supermarkets and grocerants
- Operator profiles: Jones the Grocer, The Kitchen by Spinneys
- Single category and specialist stores
- Operator profiles: Ripe Organic, Carpo
6) Expat targeted concepts
- The GCC expatriate population and its composition
- Community specialist stores
- Localised concepts inside mainstream retailers
- Operator profiles: Al Adil, Sari Sari, 1004 Gourmet