Spar set to join retail fray with 300 convenience stores in Thailand

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Spar set to join retail fray with 300 convenience stores in Thailand

By The Nation

 

 

SPAR International, one of the world’s largest food retail voluntary chains, has partnered with DHL Supply Chain and the Bangchak Retail Company (BCR) to establish up to 300 new convenience stores in Thailand by the end of 2020.

 

The deal will see DHL Supply Chain support Spar’s expansion plans with end-to-end transport, distribution and warehousing services across Thailand. BCR will provide the front-end store infrastructure for the Dutch retailer.

 

Spar’s supply chain will use the DHL Bangna Logistics Campus for ambient warehousing and distribution, and its Klong Prapa warehouse for handling frozen goods.

 

The infrastructure at DHL Supply Chain will support Spar’s quality standards with a range of features including CCTV systems, automatic fire protection, and temperature-controlled warehousing.

 

Both warehouses will be managed by WMOS, a warehouse management platform, to maintain levels of inventory accuracy and productivity in line with Spar’s global best practices

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/business/30320551

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-7-12

[Pdaz]

Jocks and Northern munkeys rejoice 

[Thechook]

Just what Thailand needs, more convenience stores.  You have 7/11 ' s every 50 metres or so, can always squeeze another such store in.

[JungleBiker]

56 minutes ago, Thechook said:

Just what Thailand needs, more convenience stores.  You have 7/11 ' s every 50 metres or so, can always squeeze another such store in.

 

Good to have competition. 

[KhunBENQ]

46 minutes ago, JungleBiker said:

Good to have competition. 

Yes and they have some stuff familiar from Germany on the shelves (they are well represented in southern Germany and Austria).

One small mart was opened north of Khon Kaen at a new Bangchak filling station.

I visited the shop recently and took some snaps.

[lentjes]

Yes pleeeeeeeeeease. Open some on Koh Samui!

[Jonmarleesco]

5 hours ago, Pdaz said:

Jocks and Northern munkeys rejoice 

They stretch well beyond the north. 

[wump]

Seen one one the highway from Korat to Bangkok in May. Can't be that much news. 

 

When they were still doing big business in Germany some 25 years ago they were among the upper end of the price scale, so don't get too excited folks.

[Ace of Pop]

Shure to find its infected with Thaksinitus or CP Fever to price fix , bout time they had Monopoly Check here.?


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[hansnl]

3 hours ago, wump said:

Seen one one the highway from Korat to Bangkok in May. Can't be that much news. 

 

When they were still doing big business in Germany some 25 years ago they were among the upper end of the price scale, so don't get too excited folks.

That was, as you say, 25 years ago.

But, convenience shops are about convenience, price is secondary.

[Moti24]

15 hours ago, Thechook said:

Just what Thailand needs, more convenience stores.  You have 7/11 ' s every 50 metres or so, can always squeeze another such store in.

What amazes me is that in quite a few places, I have seen a 7/11 franchise opened up directly opposite another.  You'd think they could find a piece of land further away!  Even 100 metres would be better.

 

Thai business sense at its best.

[CLW]

 
Good to have competition. 

Any competition​ to 7-11 aka CP is welcome. Luckily I have a Family Mart opposite my Soi.

[wump]

19 hours ago, Moti24 said:

What amazes me is that in quite a few places, I have seen a 7/11 franchise opened up directly opposite another.  You'd think they could find a piece of land further away!  Even 100 metres would be better.

 

Thai business sense at its best.

There has been a thread about this. Not about "Thainess" but mostly economics. In many areas a store can only have a certain size and can only handle x amount of customers a day. Since staff is paid a pittance anyway (the equivalent of 6 bottles of beer a day) sometimes it really does make sense to open a shop directly across the road when the turnover in shop 1 has reached maximum capacity.

 

On a side note: Sometimes headquarters lets independent franchisees test the waters in some areas and then CP (owner of the franchise in Thailand) comes along and opens another 7-11 right next to the other one. But I think these cases are a lot fewer than the first scenario.

Edited July 13, 2017 by wump

[Srikcir]

On 7/13/2017 at 10:59 AM, Moti24 said:

Thai business sense at its best.

I believe 7/11's business model in Thailand places a limit on net revenues. If a store begins to exceed that limit, another 7/11 may be allowed into the same area. Good for the national franchise holder, maybe not so great for the next local sub-franchise holder.

[saakura]

For those in Bangkok, there is a SPAR store on the ground floor of M Tower on Sukhumvit Main Road Soi 62, opened a few months ago

Edited July 15, 2017 by saakura

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

4 minutes ago, saakura said:

For those in Bangkok, there is a SPAR store on the ground floor of M Tower on Sukhumvit Main Road Soi 62, opened a few months ago

 

So what kind of stuff are they selling?

 

Why would anyone want to shop there?

 

 

[saakura]

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

So what kind of stuff are they selling?

 

Why would anyone want to shop there?

 

 

I just went there once to buy a bottle of water and looked like any other mini mart. Mentioned it as some posters above seemed to be excited about the arrival of spar in thailand.

[toofarnorth]

23 hours ago, Srikcir said:

I believe 7/11's business model in Thailand places a limit on net revenues. If a store begins to exceed that limit, another 7/11 may be allowed into the same area. Good for the national franchise holder, maybe not so great for the next local sub-franchise holder.

Ah , that might explain why way up north in Maechan a year ago there was one 7/11 now we have 3.