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Convenience 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.

Videos

Store of the month: July 2023: BILLA Corso, Vienna, Austria
27/06/2023
See inside our pick for July’s store of the month, BILLA Corso, Hoher Markt, Austria. It is an impressive city centre convenience store that offers both a convenient top-up or larger shop, as well as an in-store drinking experience.
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Store of the month: March 2023: Kavanagh's Budgens, Belsize Park, UK
1/03/2023
See inside our pick for March’s store of the month, Kavanagh’s Budgens in Belsize Park, UK. Be inspired by the store’s outstanding execution in food-to-go, fresh produce, counters, bakery, and meal solutions.
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Store of the month: November 2022: Epic, Paris, France
07/11/2022
See inside our pick for November's store of the month, Epic, France. It is a blend between a convenience store and a fine food specialist, making it unique and able to cater for both locals and tourists. Be inspired by the store's design, fresh food zone and the wine cellar.
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Store of the month: November 2021: PBX, Stockholm, Sweden
22/11/2021
See inside our pick for November’s store of the month, PBX, Stockholm, Sweden. Reitan Convenience has made one of its 'largest investments ever', by opening PBX, its sustainable convenience store of the future.
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Store of the month: August 2021: Aldi Corner Store, Sydney, Australia
27/08/2021
See inside our pick for August’s store of the month, Aldi Corner Store, Sydney, Australia. It’s the retailer’s first small-format store with a new layout and convenience-driven experience.
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Store of the month July 2021: Monop’, Paris, France
26/07/2021
See inside our pick for July’s store of the month, Monop’, Paris, France. It’s the latest convenience concept from Groupe Casino which brings together food-to-go, local products, services and an unmanned retail section that is open 24 hours daily.
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Store of the month January 2021: GRIDSERVE, UK
27/01/2021
See inside our pick for January’s store of the month, GRIDSERVE, UK. We look at how the world’s first solely electric forecourt provides a strong retail offer and useful facilities for customers whose dwell time will be much longer than the current refuelling pitstop.
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Presentations

Colruyt’s shopper-centric formats: a tailored approach
21/09/2023
During a recent trip to Belgium, we visited six formats across Colruyt Group’s portfolio. This includes its discount, supermarket, organic-focused, and autonomous convenience formats. Understand each format in more detail including their different strategies and how they are meeting varied shopper needs.
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Inside Circle K’s connected lab store
12/09/2023
We look inside Couche-Tard’s connected lab store to discover the technologies shaping the future of convenience retailing.
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Why Korean convenience is gaining popularity
11/09/2023
Discover three reasons why Korean convenience stores are standing out in Malaysia, from their excellent foodservice ranges, and effective use of digital, to their exclusive assortment.
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SPAR pop-up: a new venture
04/09/2023
This new SPAR store centres on sustainability and efficiency, with a focus on pure convenience.
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How retailers in Berlin are aligning to our European retail trends 2023
20/07/2023
In this report, we review all of the stores visited in Berlin in May 2023, and how retailers are aligning to the top five European trends we identified earlier this year. Retailers and suppliers can be inspired by the many initiatives displayed by German retailers in the capital.
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Picture perfect: how French retailers are bringing key trends to life
04/07/2023
Explore how 10 retailers, including Carrefour, Auchan, and Intermarché, in the French cities of Nantes and Rennes are creating excellence, competing on value, and meeting shopper demands with their stores in the two cities.
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SGN Retail, Fallings Park, Wolverhampton
28/06/2023
A first-of-a-kind Iceland Local brings extended frozen range to joint-fascia forecourt site
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Kavanagh’s Budgens: raising the bar in UK grocery
15/05/2023
The Kavanagh Group opened its fifth Budgens store in early 2023: this unit in Belsize Park. The outlet was already a Budgens, but an extensive refit has seen it evolve significantly. The store trades from 10,000 sq. ft. and offers over 10,000 SKUs. Its core grocery offer is augmented by a wealth of service counters, food-for-later counters and food-for-now facilities. The focus of the store is on elevated merchandising, adept use of technologies, strong customer service and catering for a variety of shopper missions.
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Circle K: playing to its strengths
13/04/2023
Discover how Circle K has optimised a small footprint store to build an offer around its strengths in cold and hot drinks, food-to-go and impulse ranges.
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Majestic: A smaller concept for growth
12/04/2023
Majestic, the UK’s largest specialist wine retailer, has opened a new small store concept in Harpenden as it trials new ways of expanding its bricks-and-mortar presence.
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