David Jones is on a drive to bring an improved premium food offering to Australian consumers. We visited two of its first stores in Melbourne in early 2020 to better understand the offer and what the potential is for David Jones to inject innovation into the Australian convenience sector.

We look at the strategic priorities for Co-op, the UK’s largest consumer co-operative. Its heritage as a responsible retailer increasingly resonates with more socially conscious shoppers. Building on these core values, it is focusing on implementing strategies that will set it up for long term success and fulfil its vision to be ‘the number one convenience retailer in the UK’.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, convenience chains in Japan have struggled. However, Lawson’s minimart format, Seijo Ishii, continues to trade strongly. We review its latest performance, in-store category best practice and supplier opportunities.   

We look at the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on our five global convenience trends we identified for 2020, with convenience channel forecasts and case studies from North America, Europe and Asia for inspiration.  

Drawing on the IGD Convenience Retailing Survey 2020 (supplemented with data from the Retail Data Partnership) we put the numbers on sector performance in the first half of the year and share our projections for the full-year out-turn plus the outlook to 2022.

We review Seven & i Holdings’ current performance, plus progress against key strategic objectives.