Back to school spending drives up grocery sales

Irish households spent an additional €2.6m on fresh vegetables and €1.9m more on fresh fruit in the four weeks leading up to September 29 compared to the previous month. 

Take-home grocery sales increased by 6.1% during September with families seeing schools resume as grocery price inflation remained mostly flat, new data from market research firm Kantar shows.

Overall, Irish households spent an additional €2.6m on fresh vegetables and €1.9m more on fresh fruit in the four weeks leading up to September 29, compared to the previous month. Spending on bread increased by €1.4m while an extra €1m was spent on frozen goods.