‘Christmas shows the grocers’ relentless focus on price is hurting the discounters’

Radojev, Hugh

While Aldi and Lidl both enjoyed their best-ever Christmases, the even stronger performance of the supermarkets shows the empire is striking back.

While the privately owned supermarkets and a handful of other food retailers have yet to update the market, there can be no doubt that grocery enjoyed a surfeit of joy this festive period.

Kantar data showed that Britons, desperate for some semblance of good cheer after what was another difficult year, splurged a record £13.7bn on turkeys, pigs-in-blankets and wine this Christmas.

 

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