Recently, our daily reality has been dominated by fears caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation, however, will not last forever and still this year we will move from the crisis management phase of the sudden turn of events and careful monitoring of the epidemiological, economic and political forecasts, to a new but stable status…
The bi1 chain will open a hypermarket in Elk next year. Does this format of shops still have a chance for success in Poland? Among large-format stores, it is the hypermarket channel that has experienced the greatest difficulties in recent years. Hypermarkets are struggling In recent years, the hypermarket channel has experienced the greatest…
This year, before Christmas, customers will not be able to buy live carp at Tesco stores in Poland. Only refrigerated and frozen fish will be available at Tesco stores in Poland. There will be no live carp in Tesco’s pre-Christmas offer Tesco chain informed that this year live carp will be withdrawn from the offer…
In May, the Court of Justice of the European Union decided that the retail tax could not be treated as illegal state aid (as the European Commission wanted). This allows for a return to the Polish legal system of the tax first introduced in September 2016. According to the latest press reports, this could happen…
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the European Commission’s decision to ban the introduction of the retail sales tax in Poland was wrong. This means that it is more likely that the tax, which is currently being postponed from one year to the next, will be effective from 1 January 2020….
The Polish bio food market is still at an early stage of development. In 2018, it accounted for only 0.4% of the total food market. While in Western Europe this share is several times higher. Currently, there are not many strong players on the bio food market, this type of offer is still developing. The…
Although the hypermarket channel is basically stagnant compared to other modern channels and some brands are even in deadlock, they are still popular and visited by many Poles. Discount chains such as Biedronka or Lidl, or recently the most fashionable convenience stores do not have a full range of food products. Those more interested in…
In recent years, IKEA has opened two new formats, significantly different from typical large format stores. The first format is the Internet order collection points (e.g. Opole, Rzeszów, Kalisz, Szczecin), which are a very traditional and simple format, used only to collect orders, without the possibility of buying anything on the spot (which I experienced…
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