Which is not surprising, given their unprofitability Researchers from Gfk found that in May 2021 alone, the number of open retail stores decreased to 18,900. This, incidentally, is a decline of as much as 3.5% in annual terms. Discuss
Experts note that, on average, this corresponds to the rate of decline in the number of such salons at MTS – according to the results of the first quarter of this year, there were 5334 (-3.2%), Vedomosti writes. p>
Tele2 has a similar situation (-6% compared to February last year), and in Svyaznoy over the past two years, a “big cleanup” has taken place – the number of salons has decreased from 4 thousand to 2.6 thousand. At the same time, VimpelCom (Beeline) and MegaFon did not publish data in the public domain.
It should be noted that telecom shops are an extremely large expense item for operators. And due to the fact that very rarely it is possible to recoup their existence, the decline in the future will only continue.