Lotte Shopping news

Lotte axes its overnight delivery service for online groceries to prioritise its same-day proposition. Competitor Homeplus reports triple digit growth in its one-hour service in the first quarter of this year.   Lotte ditches overnight deliveries From mid-April, Lotte ceased offering overnight delivery for its online groceries, instead focusing on its two-hour same day slots, reports Aju ...

The future of Ministop convenience chain in South Korea has finally been decided. Over the last few years, uncertainty around its ownership has surfaced a number of times, for example in 2018 and last year . Lotte beats Shinsegae to acquire Ministop  According to Inside Retail, Lotte Group, which operates the third largest convenience chain 7-Eleven in South Korea, has acquired Minis...

The South Korean conglomerate, which owns convenience retail chain Emart24, has joined the race to acquire the country’s fifth largest convenience store chain, Ministop (owned by Aeon Japan). Gives Emart24 a chance to catch up with rival 7-Eleven According to The Korea Times , Emart24 is the only convenience store operator that joined the tender along with local private equity funds An...

Lotte, one of the country’s main grocery retail chains, has launched Project Zero, with the aim of using alternative sweeteners to produce sugar-free products. Sugar-free has become a mainstream trend According to Korea Bizwire, COVID-19 has heightened people’s interest in health and wellness. Food companies and retailers are increasingly looking to use alternative sweeteners to reduce the ...

Convenience store chain 7-Eleven (managed by Lotte Shopping) has unveiled a future-proof store using next-generation digital technology in Seoul, South Korea. A place to test future operations The new store is called “DT Lab Store”, located in Lotte Data Communication Co.’s headquarters. As the name suggests, it is a place to test the digital technologies that the retailer plans to roll out...

We round up the latest initiatives and developments from South Korea’s convenience retailers, covering topics such as beauty & cosmetics, green environment, subscription service and COVID-19.  Beauty & Cosmetics: CVS as a new sales channel Convenience stores are emerging as a new channel for cosmetics products: GS25's cosmetics sales up +18.2% vs. 2019 CU's cosmetics sales up +6.7%...

The country’s supermarket operators are launching new initiatives to better serve neighborhood needs. Retailers are strengthening supermarket offers in response to changes in consumer preferences Supermarkets had flat growth in 2020 (value down marginally by -0.1%YoY), whereas hypermarkets saw relatively large decline at -2.6%YoY. This is due to store closure as well as changes in consumer ...

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The number of health and beauty (H&B) stores in South Korea dips for the first time as more consumers turned to online shopping. 31 stores closed in 2020 Olive Young, lalavla and LOHB’s are the country’s three major H&B retailers.  As of December 2020, they have a combined 1,484 stores, down by 31 from one year earlier. This is in contract to a steady store expansion in previous years: 1,...

eBay is to sell its business in South Korea. Big name players in retail are all in for a deal valued at KRW5 tn (US$4.42 bn). Four-way race for the acquisition Lotte Group, Emart Inc. (owned by Shinsegae), SK Telecom Co. and private equity firm MBK Partners have been chosen as the preliminary bidders to buy a controlling stake of eBay Korea. Kakao has decided to opt out of the bidding. ...