Quick Take — Whole Foods Market private label products land in Singapore

An initial assortment of almost 300 products will be sold on Amazon platforms in the region, as well as on local grocery shops

The leading organic grocery shop will start with nearly 300 private label products in many categories, adding to the tens of thousands of grocery and everyday essentials from Amazon.sg, Amazon Fresh and local grocery and speciality retailers in the region.

In addition, exclusive brands from Whole Foods Market – acquired by Amazon in 2017- will be available in-store at Little Farms, a natural and organic supermarket in Singapore, which has eight locations across the city-state .

Whole Foods has long been selling its products where it has no shops, via the web: the Italians could have taken the cue to export to the rest of the world by developing e-commerce.

Unfortunately, only the Americans, the Germans – Lidl- and the Chinese – Temu – are doing this with their marketplaces.

Read also : Amazon Uk converts Amazon Fresh to Whole Foods and its platform beats the marketplace

Below the private-label line of Whole Foods sold abroad. Compiled 23 September, updated 24 September 2025

Quick Take — Historic change: Supermarkets lead volume growth, overtaking Discounts

“From 2019 to 2023, their [the discounters’] turnover grew at an average annual rate of 9.3 per cent, compared to 5.7 per cent for the other operators”(we reported this here). Then there was aturnaround: the growth in volume of the hyper and super channel exceeded (2.5%) that of the discounters (1.3%) . E-commerce was very good at 8.4% (see first table below).

Circana data show how, after 9.1% in 2023, value sales grew more slowly in 2024 ( 2.4%) to consolidate in 2025 with a further 3.7%.

The significant novelty is that, unlike the previous two-year period, growth is no longer just an effect of prices, but is accompanied by a recovery in real demand: volumes, in fact, declining by 0.5% in 2023, turn positive in 2024 ( 1.8%) and accelerate in 2025 ( 2.3%). Supporting this rebalancing is also the dynamics of prices, which after a 9.5% surge in 2023, stop at 0.6% in 2024 and travel at 1.4% in 2025, returning to physiological levels.

Below: one of the factors in the recovery of the Iper Super channel (in which there are also superstores) was probably the strength of the private label, which expressed convenience, and which is beating the leading brands (such as Barilla or Coca-Cola, to give examples, see the second table). A comparison between the different channels – hyper/super/superstore ‘versus’ discounters – on prices is unfortunately not possible to date.

p.s.: looking at the ISTAT data, the drop in volumes highlighted a few days ago, seems to affect only small retailers, not the GD (page 3).

Note that ISTAT has only been using barcodes since 2020 and that not all retailers use them.

Compiled 7 September, updated 8 September 2025

Quick Take — The most convenient supermarket and discount chains

As Food Fact rightly says , ‘The most popular shopping in supermarkets and hypermarkets is mixed:

In this category we have Famila and Famila Superstore (Selex) as the first insignia, followed by Coop, Conad, Panorama. Interspar, Esselunga Superstore Carrefour Market close the ranking.

P.S.: I wonder how the signs in the category mentioned below that of Iper and Super – I am referring to ‘mixed shopping’ (discount) – can be compared since I understand that some signs do not have branded products but only private label products.

Quick Take — Eurospin over 9 billion turnover. Ready to land in Serbia

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The Eurospin network has about 1,340 stores. At the beginning of September it will open 3 more: in Parabiago, Orte and Terni. In 2024 it cut the ribbon at 35 new pdv…

In 2024 the Eurospin Italia group achieved a value of production of 9.14 billion, 4 .9%, an Ebitda of 635 million (-2%) and a profit of 395 million (-7.4%). Net retail revenue growth (9.03 billion) stopped at 5%, half the average from 2019. And the margin ratio also lost half a point to 7%. Eurospin is the only Italian retailer with international projection (about fifty stores in Slovenia, Croatia and Malta and soon in Serbia), except for Conad in Albania, which relies on third-party entrepreneurs, and Crai in Malta.
In Italy, the market share in the discount channel exceeds 31% and 8% in the large-scale retail trade. Average revenues per pdv are 6.8 million . 100% of the offer is own brand.