Dunnes Stores gains biggest share of grocery market

A ‘shop and save’ promotion has helped Dunnes Stones to capture the biggest share of the spoils in the supermarket wars, even as the grocery cake got bigger for all players with consumers spending more at the tills, according to the latest expenditure snapshot ahead of the key Christmas splurge.

The Kantar Worldpanel survey showed almost all supermarkets, with the exception of Tesco, gained sales as measured in euro, as shoppers in the Republic spent €2.35bn on groceries in the latest quarter, up from €2.26bn a year earlier.

Price rises across the typical basket of food, drink, toiletries and confectionery in the 12 weeks to the week ending November 6 came in at 0.7%, down from a previous reading of 1.3%, it said.