Grocery sales slip back
Supermarket grocery sales in the 12 weeks to 14th July were down 0.5 per cent on last year’s record figures, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
Supermarket grocery sales in the 12 weeks to 14th July were down 0.5 per cent on last year’s record figures, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
The latest grocery market share figures show a two per cent increase during the 12 weeks to 21 April 2019 including £2.5 billion spent during the Easter week, according to Kantar.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has hired Kantar Worldpanel to study shoppers’ buying trends in the run-up to Brexit in case it needs to take action to deal with food stockpiling.
Christmas grocery spending is expected to break records – despite the fact that market is now growing at it’s slowest rate since March 2017, two per cent, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
Grocery sales rose 3.2 per cent £26.3 billion in the 12 weeks to 7th October driven by strong growth at the discounters and online specialist Ocado.
Spending on groceries reached £27.1 billion in the 12 weeks to 17th June – 2.1 per cent up on the same period last year, according to figures from Kantar Worldpanel.