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Shoppers rush to snap up Christmas gifts ahead of lockdown, but no panic buying yet
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mirror.co.ukUK grocery sales jumped by 9.3% during the 12 weeks to November 1 as record numbers of Britons shopped online but there was little sign of panic buying ahead of the second lockdown.
That's according to the latest supermarket data from Kantar, which found "limited evidence" of stockpiling despite the two-week firebreak in Wales and the new lockdown in England.
It showed sales increased by 9.4% in the most recent four weeks, similar to the overall 9.3% rise in the quarter, which took overall grocery spend to £29.4 million.
But shoppers rushed to snap up Christmas gifts ahead of the four-week lockdown, with Kantar revealing toy and entertainment stores more than doubled their share of pre-Covid footfall between Monday to Wednesday last week.
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