Christmas spree brings supermarket spending to record €13bn for 2020 

Spending at supermarkets during the full 12 weeks of Christmas spending climbed by 17% from 2019 festive period

Spending at supermarkets during the full 12 weeks of Christmas spending climbed by 17% from Christmas 2019.

Irish supermarkets topped off an extraordinary year as shoppers spent €1.2bn on their groceries at Christmas, sending sales soaring during the 2020 pandemic year to a new annual record of just short of €13bn.

The figures from market researcher Kantar complete a picture that shows shoppers spent more at the five big supermarket chains and at independent grocers because there were few other ways of spending money for people who had kept their jobs.