Discounters continue to eat into share of '˜big four'
All four of the major supermarket chains endured another year-on-year decline in sales as discounters Aldi and Lidl achieved a record share of the market, industry figures have shown.
In good news for consumers, like-for-like grocery prices dropped by 1.4 per cent on last year as supermarket sales fell by 0.2 per cent, Kantar Worldpanel said.
The decline, which dates back to summer 2014, is primarily a result of the fierce price war leading to cheaper everyday groceries. Almost three fifths of Britons visited either Lidl or Aldi in the past 12 weeks, leading to them claiming a 4.4 per cent and 6.1 per cent share of the market and increasing sales by 13.8 per cent and 11.5 per cent on a year ago respectively.
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