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Retailers
Retailers are companies engaged in that “Ireland were the biggest in-
offering goods and services for con- ternational online shoppers in the
sumers. In Europe there are round world” where €2.7 billion was spent
about 9,000 retailers. Europe is at foreign owned websites last year.
the most important retail region An estimated 2.2 million consumers
worldwide, due to a high GDP and made at least one purchase from an
high living standards. The general overseas online retailer in 2017.
wealth is well above the world’s av-
erage. Among the top 10 retailers in ecause of changing con-
Europe in turnover value, five com- B sumption habits, prices have
panies are from Germany and three dropped and special offers are avail-
from France. able on almost every street corner.
The convenience offered by neigh-
In August 2017, Portugal had the bourhood hypermarkets (very big
highest decrease (less than 1,3%) in supermarkets) is influencing our
the volume of retail sales among the consumption and buying habits.
EU countries. In the euro zone the
decrease in retail trade was about There are different types of retailers,
0,5%. for example, department stores, gro-
cery stores and supermarkets, ware-
In Ireland, particularly in Dublin, house retailers, specialty retailers,
retailers have noticed a dramat- convenience retailers, discount re-
ic fall in consumers entering their tailers, mobile retailers and Internet
shops. This is primarily due to the retailers. All of them are specialized
increasing trend in online shopping on a different variety of products
by Irish consumers. In August 2018 and a different location.
it was reported by The Irish Times
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