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Retail, Wholesale & Distribution

In the quickly evolving retail landscape, we can help you to identify, understand and respond to changing trends and opportunities. Our latest research and insights explore shifting consumer priorities, future of store, sustainability, technology innovation and agile supply chain.

Dynamic knowledge to thrive in a Global Market

Our Global Retail, Wholesale & Distribution team connects deep knowledge of key industry issues, with research and insights. Combining our market expertise with these insights, our specialist team can guide you on strategic business decisions and support you on your path forward.

What’s in store?

In the aisles and behind the screens, retail is shifting fast. See what’s in store as our leaders explore the trends shaping retail now and what retailers need to be ready for next.

Our thinking

Holiday retail outlook

Consumers are more resourceful this year, spending smart and looking for an experience that extends beyond the price tag.
Perspective

The smart factory @ montreal

The future of manufacturing and supply chains is both physical and digital. Applying leading-edge capabilities to digitalize supply networks brings incredible efficiencies to operations.
Perspective
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Fresh, focused, and sustainable

The grocery store is in the midst of a great transformation, powered by Canadians’ changing food consumption patterns and preferences and accelerated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research

Future of food: a Canadian perspective

More than a year of living with a global pandemic has revealed a series of contradictory tensions among Canadian consumers. We’re baking our own bread, yet ordering in more than ever. We’re obsessed with fresh fruit and vegetables, but we can’t get enough of sugary, salty snacks
Research

Seeding new opportunities: Listening to Canada’s cannabis consumer

As Canada enters its third year of legalized recreational cannabis use, what’s next for the industry? Where are its newest opportunities for growth, after reaping the rewards of years, if not decades, of pent-up demand?
Research

The sustainability conviction

The sustainability conviction, the third article in our series about the future of Canada’s food sector, explores how organizations are working together to build a food system that’s more sustainable and better equipped to deal with future demands.
Research

The future of the mall

Building a new kind of destination for the post-pandemic world
Perspective

COVID-19: Voice of Canadians and impact to retailers

To help the retail industry move forward in these incredibly difficult times, Deloitte Canada explores how Canadians’ shopping and spending habits are changing in light of this global pandemic.
Perspective

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Shaunna Conway

Shaunna Conway

Partner, National Retail Sector Leader
416-557-1385

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