SPAR International store visits

Our store visit reports feature floor plans, store photos and full commentary written by our team of international retail experts. Dozens of reports are made every year of stores that feature new concepts in food and grocery retail.

Presentations

04/09/2023
This new SPAR store centres on sustainability and efficiency, with a focus on pure convenience.
15/06/2023
These exceptional SPAR stores, three in Cape Town and two in Johannesburg, highlight how the business excels with experiential retail.
19/10/2022
We visited Warsaw to see how SPAR Poland is bringing quality and value, through its EUROSPAR stores, to a discounter dominated market.
03/08/2022
Be inspired by how DESPAR Italy continues to enhance the in-store experience.
30/11/2021
This new store by INTERSPAR is in the Viennese Association of Banks’ former headquarters, a listed building in the first district of Vienna.
15/10/2020
Dongguan is an important industrial city, historically a manufacturing hub for many businesses in China. This report summarises some of the key highlights from stores that we have visited.
04/06/2020
We were invited by SPAR International to spend a day with SPAR China and its local partner SPAR Guangdong, visiting its business in Dongguan in south China.
25/02/2020
In this report we show you how the retailer is winning against its competitors in Slovenia and Croatia, with effective in the use of the sales area to increase the mix of products it has on offer.
07/10/2019
Dagrofa, which operates the SPAR banner in Denmark, has opened a flagship store in the highly competitive Copenhagen market. The new store introduces a completely updated design for the banner in the country, creating a new, shopper-first layout and offer that helps it stand out. Created to help SPAR’s independent store owners grow sales and with shoppers firmly front of mind, the format has generated a win-win situation for both parties.
16/09/2019
SPAR Merrion Row is a long-standing reference point in Irish convenience retailing. Its recent renovation and upgrade has moved it on several levels further, and further strengthened what was already an impressive food-to-go focus.