Two hundred and thirty-eight retailers across seventeen sub-sectors. The biggest cohorts: 42 gift and card shops, 38 home-and-garden retailers, 35 specialist shops (six antique dealers, four artisan metalworkers), 29 hardware and DIY suppliers, 20 clothing firms. St Peter Port carries a third of the sector; St Sampson and Vale follow at 38 and 32. —
301 organisations are counted with Retail & Shopping as their primary sector — 9% of everything with a sector on record, and the 4th largest of 16. An estimated 80% of the sector is counted, measured against an independent listing rather than assumed.
The 399 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 257 of 301 Retail & Shopping organisations (85%)
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| Parish | Organisations | vs island (LQ) |
|---|---|---|
| St Peter Port | 123 | 1.12 |
| St Sampson | 53 | 1.55 |
| Vale | 27 | 0.80 |
| Castel | 19 | 0.89 |
| St Martin | 14 | 0.62 |
| St Saviour | 6 | 0.77 |
| St Pierre du Bois | 6 | 0.77 |
| Forest | 4 | — |
| St Andrew | 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 32 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.
Thirty-five specialist retailers — six antique dealers, five craft-supply shops, four artisan metalworkers, two auction houses.
Forty-two gift and card shops — giftware generalists at the core, maker-led specialists and visitor-site souvenir stores at the edges.
Twenty clothing firms — Creasey's (1899) the only independent department store, alongside boutiques, knitwear, and lingerie specialists.
Thirty-eight retailers — soft furnishings, flooring, fitted kitchens, and freestanding furniture — founding dates from 1904 to 2017.
Twenty-nine hardware and DIY suppliers — flooring dominates with 13 firms, then builders merchants (8) and trade counters (6).
Ten firms, seven in St Peter Port — skincare retail dominates, anchored by Creasey's department store (since 1899).
Fourteen jewellers — heritage retailers at one end, handmade studios at the other, with six in-house goldsmiths between.
Fourteen convenience stores — five on Alderney, four fuel-forecourt combos, three frozen-food specialists. Le Cocq's dates to 1860.
Ten retailers — six office-supplies and managed-print firms, two CI book publishers, a Sark general store, and the Alderney Museum shop.
Nine firms — six in computer retail and repair, five in consumer AV, three each in white goods and Alderney IT services.
Nine pharmacies — four Co-op branches, two in the Healthcare Group, Boots on High Street, and Healthxchange exporting aesthetics to the UK.
Seven florists across six Guernsey parishes and Alderney — the oldest trading since 1919, three growers shipping flowers by post.
Eleven charity shops on the island — five UK-charity branches and six funding local causes, weighted toward St Peter Port.
Six grocers — two Waitrose stores (both 2011, ex-Safeway), the CI Co-op's 1979 Grand Marché, and Iceland's 2025 franchise return.
Six shops on the island — three garden centres with pet sections and three dedicated pet retailers, the oldest trading since 1904.
Nine shops weighted toward golf — three specialists at St Pierre Park, with Fletcher Sports trading since 1936.
Four shops on the island stocking toys — three general merchants, and one dedicated games retailer trading since 2018.
Tagged in Retail & Shopping but not in one of the sectors above.