Muji, Fairprice Xtra amongst world’s Store of the Future: report

The IGD also named Giant in the US, Asda in the UK, and four others.

China’s Muji and Singapore’s Fairprice Xtra are amongst the global stores that are on their journey to become the Store of the Future in 2030, the IGD said in a report.

The Muji Fresh Market, created through the partnership of JD.com and MUJI, offer a transformative offline shopping experience in Shanghai, China.

“The store is a meal solution themed supermarket, offering a full range of food-related products. Shoppers living within 3-kilometer can have goods delivered under 30 minutes too,” the IGD noted in its Top stores to visit in 2022 report.

The report showcased 60 stores across the globe that align with its Store of the Future 2030 model themes, such as exciting and experiential, digitally enabled, highly efficient, omnichannel native, and naturally sustainable.

Aside from Muji, Fairprice Xtra in Parkway, Singapore also made the top 8 global stores.

The store, according to IGD, features a design resembling a playground for food lovers with well-know local food and beverage operators.

“It also has innovations like a spice mixer in[1]store to prepare curry mixes,” the report read in part.

“The mobile-enabled store allows shoppers to scan and pay with their phones and check if products are available too.”

The list also includes the Rewe in Germany, which features a rooftop farm and operates entirely through green electricity; the Supervalu Bray in Ireland that has food-to-go and food-for-later offerings, and the Asda, Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom which now provides a refill zone for 70 unpackaged lines and takeaway draught beer.

Also amongst the top stores are the staffless Carrefour Flash in Paris, France that allows consumers to spend 10 seconds to shop and to pay; food hall Giant in the US that features self-serve beer tap wall and garden; and the first carbon neutral supermarket in Latin America, Carulla FreshMarket in Columbia.