UK supermarkets chart record sales from virus panic shopping

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Panic shopping cleared shelves in the fruit and vegetable section of an Asda store in London last month.

Total grocery sales, including in-stores and online, rocketed by a record 20.6 percent to a new high of £10.8 billion in the four weeks to March 22 compared with a year earlier, said retail research firm Kantar. The figures do not include the impact of the nationwide lockdown – that had been widely expected and the UK government implemented it on March 23 in a bid to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

British food stores have been inundated with shoppers, with people panic buying toilet paper and long-life items such as pasta and canned goods.

 

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