The several-year shrinking of the store network stopped last year

Last year Nielsen registered 19,900 general food stores in Hungary, practically just as many as a year earlier. The number of hypermarkets rose from 137 to 152, while the 401-500 m² channel expanded from 1,007 to 1,070 units. What is most important for Hungarian shoppers? To find everything they need in a single store, to find everything rapidly on the shelves and to get a good price-value ratio. Total floor space of food stores grew by 4 percent to 3.05 million m².