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Consumers’ criteria to select food retailers revisited in the current environment.

2022

Food retailing is undergoing major transformations, particularly in France. Hypermarkets are declining, hard-discount stores are gentrifying, e-commerce is mixing with physical distribution, convenience stores are gaining presence and market shares, other forms are emerging: short, collaborative or cooperative channels. Consumers are clearly changing their buying patterns. How do people currently select a form of sale? Are there any changes in their selection criteria or in their perception of food retailing that can explain that they are turning away from hypermarkets to go to more meaningful places? The objective of this research is to revisit the consumers’ criteria to select a form of s…