Panama: Retail Foods

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   PN2021-0006

This report provides information to U.S. exporters of agricultural and related products on how to do business with the retail food sector in Panama. The coronavirus pandemic has changed consumption habits and purchasing methods of Panamanian consumers. Amid mobility restrictions and lockdowns in 2020, people opted to consume products via multiple online order and delivery systems as the new way customers prefer to purchase groceries.

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