ResearchFarm Ltd - Retail Analysts

30th November 2015

The hypermarket is under pressure.

The hypermarket is under pressure. Decline is inevitable, the format was groundbreaking in the 1980s. Retailers confronted with shrinking sales densities are trying to reduce their exposure to unproductive space. [...]

26th November 2015

Retailing up in the air and moving underground

One theme that has emerged from our stores of the future series is retailers using existing real estate and infrastructure more efficiently. Thinking vertically is fast becoming a new trend. [...]

9th November 2015

Should Amazon build stores? Absolutely not. (Part 3)

While we cannot see a convincing reason why Amazon should establish a proper store estate, it is of course a good idea for Amazon to have some physical touch points. [...]

6th November 2015

Should Amazon open stores? Absolutely not. (Part 2)

Just take one of the “founding principles” of Amazon, the question of inventory. [...]

5th November 2015

Should Amazon open stores? Absolutely not. (Part 1)

After talk about the death of the high street, there is now much talk of the death of the pureplay and how online giants need to forward integrate on to [...]

23rd October 2015

UK Grocery 2016: Amazon to replace discounters as major market disruptor

Discounters Aldi and Lidl gaining market share at the expense of the Big Four supermarkets radically transformed UK grocery in 2015. 2016 will see attention turn to Amazon’s online grocery [...]

7th October 2015

Amazon and the colouring books – how stressed out are shoppers?

We have dug around in the data from August 7th to September 2nd 2015 period. And we have found some interesting “nuggets”. [...]

30th September 2015

“Just Amazon It”

We explain how the membership service Prime and the third party marketplace model, together with the logistics build out, are instrumental to Amazon’s expansion of its ecosystem. [...]

29th September 2015

Multichannel, the Aldi way

As we reported earlier in 2015 Aldi is preparing the launch of an online offer in the UK. The discounter is starting a larger trial to become multichannel in Europe [...]

22nd September 2015

Our Research Director on Bloomberg

Daniel Lucht, global research director at Researchfarm, discusses quarterly results from Inditex and examines the luxury and fast fashion industries. He speaks on "The Pulse." [...]