Many small local grocers are likely to evolve into chained players in the coming years, while retaining their localised small scale consistent across stores. Therefore, they may continue to penetrate neighbourhoods to further capitalise on their smaller scale efficiencies and lower rental costs.
While the use of non-cash payments, driven mostly by cards in the case of in-store purchases and digital payments for online orders, is now prevalent in the United Arab Emirates, cash is still used by blue-collar workers when shopping at small local grocers. On the other hand, non-cash payments made in small local grocers are mostly driven by mid-income consumers who visit these stores for convenience.
Small local grocers will continue to face competition from large supermarkets and online grocery platforms which are heavily investing in loyalty programmes. The increasing popularity of discounters is also an emerging challenge for these smaller retailers.
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Small local grocers are mostly independent retail outlets (with a selling space of under 400 square metres), kiosks, market stalls or street vendors, owned by families and/or run on an individual basis, and with a primary focus on selling food/beverages/tobacco and other groceries. Small local grocers also includes ethnic grocery stores that specialize in foreign brands and food types, health food stores, confectioners/newsagents/tobacconists (CTNs), food & drink souvenir stores, legally registered mobile shops that are run out of a truck, and regional specialty stores. Retail sales from farmers markets, farms, vineyards, or similar producers are also included in small local grocers. Outlets located within wet markets in Southeast Asia (often located in government-owned multi-story buildings) should be counted as separate outlets.
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