While most international players have suspended expansion plans in Turkey (Douglas from Germany, Tesco from the U.K. and C&A from the Netherlands have closed operations), local grocery discounters are expanding in every Turkish region.
In total, the retailers Bim, Sok Market and A101 will open 2,000 stores in Turkey during 2017. The debut of Galeries Lafayette in Istanbul last month also attracted a lot of attention but more generally, the situation of specialty retailers is more...