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  • Seasonal sales highlight e-commerce potential in Qatar

    QATAR, 2017/06/30 With online consumer activity set to spike across the MENA region during the religious festivals of Ramadan and Eid, Qatar is looking to encourage e-commerce, as part of a broader push to catalyse private sector development. Shipping initiatives At the end of May, Qatar Postal Services Company (Q-Post) slashed shipping charges by as much as 35% for customers using its “Connected” e-commerce service throughout Ramadan, in a bid to spur online retail during the annual gift-giving that marks these holidays. Launched in April of last year, Connected provides users with an “international shipping address” allowing them to shop at select world retailers that ordinarily restrict shipping to Qatar, thus easing postal wait times.

  • Busy supply pipeline breeds competition and innovation among Qatar’s malls

    QATAR, 2017/04/15 An abundance of new supply is set to transform Qatar’s thriving retail landscape, with sustained levels of consumer confidence and high occupancy rates driving optimism part brick-and-mortar retailers. According to a Qatar real estate statement released by DTZ Research at the end of last year, following the opening of the 195,000-sq-metre Mall of Qatar on December 10, retail space in Doha totalled 838,000 sq metres distributed across 15 malls. Total retail space is set to increase to some 1.85m sq metres by the end of 2019, by which time a further nine malls are expected to have opened. With all but two of these malls set to open this year, concerns have been raised that the retail market may suffer from the dual effects of oversupply and additional straitened economic circumstances in the coming years.
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