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At the end of 2020 Superama was replaced by Walmart Express.
Walmart owns the largest number of supermarkets in Mexico with a total of 2,700.
In 2022, 81 percent of Mexicans bought their groceries in supermarkets, according to Investing.
Walmart, the world’s largest supermarket chain, is part of the top 5 of the retailers by occupying the number 1 position, followed by Amazon, Costco, Schwarz Group and The Home Depot. In fact, the main companies of retailing have posted 8.5 percent year-on-year growth in retail revenuecompared to 5.2 percent in 2022, according to information from Deloitte.
In Mexico, Walmart owns the largest number of supermarkets with 2,700 branches, being Bodega Aurrerá the most common with 80 percent of the total of these self-service stores. While Soriana, the second with the most participation in this market, has 800 stores. The top 5 is completed by Chedraui, Casa Ley and La Comer.
Although Walmart is the leading supermarket, apparently not all its branches have hygiene filterssince in this American branch a client exhibited how a rat walked through the corridors, so free that it even showed where its burrow was.
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Although they decreased the number of products they buy, Mexicans increased the frequency of visits to supermarkets in the search for offers that allow them to take better advantage of their income, this according to information from the consultant Kantar.
Visits increased by 34 percent, which means that from visiting 15 supermarkets now they visit 23, a figure that exceeded pre-pandemic levels. In Mexico, inflation materialized its decline, stabilizing at 5.18 percent in the first half of June, according to the Inegi. However, the product prices do not budge.
And it is that in the face of a difficult economic context at the national level, more than 50 percent of Mexicans have modified their purchasing habits, especially in the face of inflation.
A study prepared by Kantar México, showed that the 35 percent of Mexicans made cuts in their budget, while 29 percent looked for alternatives in different stores. Currently, 23 percent of Mexicans have implemented financial planning with spending limits. While brands such as City Market, Sumesa and La Comer assure that their sales have not decreased, although they do observe changes in consumers.