Table of Contents
Overview
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- What you need to know
- Areas covered in this Report
Executive Summary
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- The market
- Consumer spending
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- Figure 1: France: estimated distribution of spending on food and drink by product type, 2017
- Sector size and forecast
- Channels of distribution
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- Figure 2: France: channels of distribution of spending on food and drink, 2017
- Companies and brands
- Leading players
- Market shares
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- Figure 3: France: leading grocers’ shares of all food retailers’ sales, 2017
- Online
- The consumer
- Who shops for groceries
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- Figure 4: France: responsibility for grocery shopping, by gender, September 2018
- How they shop for groceries
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- Figure 5: France: how they shop for groceries, September 2018
- Where they shop for groceries
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- Figure 6: France: grocery retailers where the most money is spent, September 2018
- Attitudes to grocery shopping
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- Figure 7: France: attitudes to grocery shopping, September 2018
- What we think
Issues and Insights
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- The new “loi alimentation”
- The facts
- The implications
- Food waste
- The facts
- The implications
- Plastics and overpackaging
- The facts
- The implications
The Market – What You Need to Know
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- Positive economic indicators
- Spending on food largely non-discretionary
- Retail sector in France is generally low growth
- Food specialists outpacing the grocers
- Grocers dominate, but specialists significant
Consumer Spending
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- Economic growth picking up
- Supermarket spending mainly non-discretionary
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- Figure 8: France: consumer spending on food, drink and tobacco (incl. VAT), 2013-18
Sector Size and Forecast
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- Retail sales resilient
- Specialists outpacing the grocers
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- Figure 9: France: food retailers, sales (excl. VAT), 2013-18
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- Figure 10: France: food retailers, forecast sales (excl. VAT), 2018-23
- Figure 11: France: retail sales by format, annual % growth in value sales, 2013-17
Inflation
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- Figure 12: France: consumer prices * of food and drink, annual % change, 2013-17
- Figure 13: France: consumer prices* of food and drink, annual % change, Jan 2017-Sept 2018
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Channels of Distribution
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- Figure 14: France: channels of distribution of food and drink products (excluding tobacco), 2015-17
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Leading Players – What You Need to Know
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- “Proximity” stores are thriving
- Organics are growing
- Pedestrian drives
- Buying partnerships
- Hypermarkets losing market share as discounters and c-stores gain
- Home delivery set to drive growth in online grocery
Leading Players
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- Smaller “proximity” stores are thriving
- Growing organic sector
- Pedestrian drives
- Buying partnerships
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- Figure 15: France: leading grocers, sales (excl. VAT), 2013-17
- Figure 16: France: leading grocers, outlets, 2013-17
- Sales per outlet
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- Figure 17: France: leading grocers, sales per outlet (ex VAT), 2014-17
Market Shares
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- Figure 18: France: leading grocers’ shares of all food retailers’ sales, 2013-17
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Online
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- Online activity
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- Figure 19: France: broadband connections (percentage of households), 2010-17
- Shopping online for food
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- Figure 20: France: online purchasing, 2008-17
- Online grocery market size
- Leading online players
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- Figure 21: France: leading online grocery retailers, sales, 2015-17
- Drive dominates grocery, for now…..
- Home delivery the next battleground
- Monoprix
- Carrefour’s ambitions
The Consumer – What You Need to Know
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- Over two-thirds are mainly responsible for shopping
- Store-based shopping dominates
- Leclerc most shopped
- Lidl best for top-up shopping
- Food wastage and plastic packaging are the biggest concerns
Who Shops for Groceries
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- Majority of consumers take full responsibility for grocery shopping
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- Figure 22: France: responsibility for grocery shopping, September 2018
- Women increasingly sharing responsibility for shopping
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- Figure 23: France: responsibility for grocery shopping, by gender, September 2018
How They Shop for Groceries
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- Store-based shopping dominates
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- Figure 24: France: how they shop for groceries, September 2018
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- Figure 25: France: how they shop for groceries, by age of children in household, September 2018
Where They Shop for Groceries
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- Figure 26: France: grocery retailers where the most money is spent, September 2018
- Customer profiles
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- Figure 27: France: grocery retailer they spend the most with, by average age and income, September 2018
- Where they also shop
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- Figure 28: France: grocery retailers used for top up shopping, September 2018
- Number of retailers used
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- Figure 29: France: repertoire of grocery retailers used in a typical month, September 2018
- Retailers used – in-store or online
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- Figure 30: France: how they shop for groceries by grocery retailers where most money is spent, September 2018
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Attitudes to Grocery Shopping
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- Food waste
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- Figure 31: France: attitudes to food waste, September 2018
- Packaging
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- Figure 32: France: attitudes to food packaging, September 2018
- Fresh foods
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- Figure 33: France: attitudes to fresh foods, September 2018
Appendix – Data Sources, Abbreviations and Supporting Information
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- Abbreviations
- Data sources
Aldi
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- What we think
- Encouraging ‘one-stop shopping’
- Launching in Italy
- Growing harmonisation
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 34: Aldi: estimated group financial performance, 2013-17
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- Figure 35: Aldi: outlet data, 2013-17
- Retail offering
Auchan
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- What we think
- Growing focus on proximity
- Single brand transformation continues
- Horizon alliance offers opportunity to boost buying power
- Recovering lost ground on digital
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 36: Auchan: group financial performance, 2013-17
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- Figure 37: Auchan: outlet data, 2013-17
- Retail offering
Carrefour
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- What we think
- The Bompard era and Carrefour 2022 transformation plan
- New blood
- The hypermarket format
- Remodellings and transformations in all countries
- Partnerships
- Online
- Specialist e-commerce sites
- Organics
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 38: Carrefour: group financial performance, 2013-17
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- Figure 39: Carrefour: outlet data, 2013-17
- Figure 40: Carrefour: store numbers by country, December 2017
- Figure 41: Carrefour (Europe): outlet numbers by format, 2013-17
- Retail offering
Casino
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- What we think
- New concepts to make stores more appealing
- Casino and L'Oréal team up to launch beauty stores in Paris
- Delivery options expanded
- Tie up with Ocado to help build digital commerce capabilities
- Instant ordering through voice-command technology
- Lifestyle hub for urban consumers
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 42: Casino: group financial performance, 2013-17
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- Figure 43: Casino (France): outlet data, 2013-17
- Retail offering
E. Leclerc
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- What we think
- Tackling the lucrative Paris market
- Pedestrian Drive to capitalise on growing urbanisation and demand for convenience
- Standalone store concept dedicated to organic food
- Instant ordering through Google’s voice assistant platform
- New online channel to make shopping convenient for Spanish customers
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 44: E Leclerc: France, estimated sales performance, 2013-17
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- Figure 45: E Leclerc: outlets and estimated sales per outlet, 2013-17
- Retail offering
Les Mousquetaires (Intermarché)
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- What we think
- Evolution of online grocery
- Relaunch of website
- Urban stores to fulfil every need
- Encouraging healthy eating
- All change on promotions
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 46: Les Mousquetaires: grocery operations – Estimated sales performance, 2013-17
- Figure 47: Les Mousquetaires: grocery outlet data, 2013-17
- Retail offering
Schwarz Group
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- What we think
- Tight controls the key
- Problems in fresh foods
- Lessons from the UK
- Online
- Where next?
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 48: Schwarz Group: group financial performance, 2013/14-2017/18
- Figure 49: Schwarz Group: outlet data, 2013/14-2017/18
- Retail offering
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