Here's how the supermarkets shared the grocery market for the last three months

It seems people are continuing to increase their spend on groceries.

Here's how the supermarkets shared the grocery market for the last three months

It seems people are continuing to increase their spend on groceries.

According to Kantar Worldpanel, supermarkets have recorded a growth of 3.8% in the last 12 weeks up to the end of January.

It follows a similar increase in shopping over the course of Christmas.

The report says SuperValu has continued to attract most customers with 25% of the grocery market, up from 24.8% last year.

Dunnes enjoyed the strongest rate of growth of the top three supermarkets with sales up 5.1% compared with last year. To stand at 24.1%. Kantar said this is partly due to larger shopping trips where Dunnes saw shoppers spend an extra €1.70 on average every time they visit the store.

Lidl has seen double digit growth for the fourth consecutive three-month period to see them with 7.9% of the market, while Aldi, with 8% of the market, also posted a positive performance, with sales 2.9% higher than in 2015.

Georgieann Harrington, insight director at Kantar Worldpanel, said: "Tesco is still in second place, half a percentage point behind SuperValu, with a 24.5% share of the grocery market.

"However, sales growth of 1.1% makes this the most positive performance Tesco has seen since November 2012, so things are still looking up for the retailer."

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