Three hundred and forty-seven retailers across seventeen sub-sectors. Specialist retail leads at 62 (antique dealers, craft-supply shops, phone repair), followed by 50 clothing and fashion shops weighted to St Peter Port, 45 gifts and cards, 38 in hardware and DIY, and 25 in health and beauty. Fourteen pharmacies serve the Bailiwick. —
301 organisations are counted with Retail & Shopping as their primary sector — 9% of everything with a sector on record, and the 5th largest of 16. An estimated 82% of the sector is counted, measured against an independent listing rather than assumed.
The 347 listed on this page and the 301 counted above are different claims, not a discrepancy: this page lists everyone who works in Retail & Shopping; the census counts those whose primary sector it is.
A parish on record for 256 of 301 Retail & Shopping organisations (85%)
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| Parish | Organisations | vs island (LQ) |
|---|---|---|
| St Peter Port | 121 | 1.11 |
| St Sampson | 53 | 1.56 |
| Vale | 27 | 0.82 |
| Castel | 16 | 0.74 |
| St Martin | 16 | 0.70 |
| St Andrew | 6 | 0.68 |
| St Saviour | 6 | 0.76 |
| St Pierre du Bois | 6 | 0.79 |
| Forest | 4 | — |
| Torteval | 1 | — |
A location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. A quotient of one means "the same mix as the island", and should look like nothing. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all, and parishes holding fewer than 30 are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence — a quotient over a handful moves on one new record.
12 Guernsey organisations in this sector have no parish on record — a real gap, not an exclusion, and the map fills in as verification proceeds; a further 33 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.
Sixty-two of the 352 retail businesses trade in specialist stock — six antique dealers, six craft-supply shops, four mobile-phone repairers.
Fifty shops on the island, weighted to St Peter Port (28), with womenswear the largest specialism and a four-firm Guernsey-knitwear cluster.
Forty-five gift and card shops — thirteen in St Peter Port, twelve across Vale and St Sampson, seven trading on Alderney.
Thirty-eight suppliers — 13 in flooring, eight builders' merchants, and thirteen more in plumbing-and-heating and electrical wholesale.
Twenty-five shops spanning department-store beauty halls, opticians, wholefood pantries, and online supplement empires — 17 in St Peter Port.
Twenty-one shops across four parishes — nine in St Peter Port — weighted toward fitted kitchens and bedrooms.
Twenty jewellers and watch retailers — nine in fine-jewellery retail, eight designing bespoke, seven selling watches, six goldsmiths.
Seventeen convenience stores — five on Alderney, four forecourt operators, and a St Peter Port cluster of five.
Fifteen shops — office-supply operators alongside high-street bookshops and stationers. PBS Group dates to 1972; the newest opened 2023.
Fifteen electronics and appliance retailers — the oldest a gas utility trading since 1823, the newest a device-repair shop opened 2019.
Fourteen pharmacies across the Bailiwick — five in St Peter Port, three in St Martin, and Alderney's sole chemist trading since 1926.
Twelve grocery operations — two Co-op formats, two Waitrose stores, an M&S Food franchise, and specialist grocers like Iwaris (2022).
Ten florists across seven parishes — the oldest trading since 1919, the newest 2023; six list wedding flowers as a specialism.
Eight charity shops split between St Peter Port (5) and St Sampson (3) — the oldest trading since 1987, the newest 2023.
Seven shops on the island — four in Vale, split between raw-feeding specialists, an aquatics-inclusive centre, and a hardware hybrid.
Six specialist retailers — Fletcher Sports (1936) through JamGolf (2017) — covering golf, tackle, surf-skate, and sportswear.
Five shops — a 1979 Toymaster general-merchandiser, two dedicated games shops, a toy-and-nursery store, and a 2026 Lego specialist.
Tagged in Retail & Shopping but not in one of the sectors above.