Your favourite food retailers are doing a lot more to get you to open your wallet: think cellphones, pets, baby products and outdoor furniture.

That’s because they all face huge pressure in a market that isn’t growing. Forays into different countries, a popular option a decade ago, have almost universally bombed...

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