Irish shoppers spent an extra €143 million on buying groceries during the latest lockdown period according to figures from the retail data group Kantar.
Sales of vegetables increased by 18.5 per cent in the last four weeks of the period looked at. Online grocery sales were also up nearly double what they were a year ago.
In Britain too, the online share of the grocery market hit record levels.
Online grocery sales in Britain for the four weeks to January 30 accounted for 16 per cent of the entire market, up from 8 per cent last year according to figures from Nielsen Homescan data. Mike Watkins, Nielsen’s UK head of retailer and business insight, said that shoppers were shifting away from physical stores, where overall growth was flat.
