Grocery shopping trips to the North halved during second quarter of year

Instances of people travelling to the North to do their grocery shopping halved during the second quarter of this year on a like-for-like basis, according to figures.

Latest quarterly Irish grocery market data from international consultancy group Kantar Worldpanel shows supermarkets in the Republic are continuing to capture more of the domestic market than their counterparts north of the border.

Republic-based supermarkets now account for 88% of grocery spend from domestic shoppers. The figures also show that only 8% of households went North — to the likes of Asda and Sainsbury — for their groceries during the second quarter; down from a figure of 16% for the same three-month period last year.