The grocery market declined by 5.7% per cent during the past 12 weeks
Supermarket sales dropped when outdoor hospitality re-opened.
Sales of home cooking ingredients declined by 14-point-9 per cent in the latest 12 weeks, and the amount of money shoppers spent on alcohol in supermarkets dropped by 94-point-4 million euro.
According to findings by Kantar, the grocery market declined by 5-point-7 per cent during the past 12 weeks, compared with the extraordinary spending during the first national lockdown last year.
Online grocery sales decreased by 4-point-4 per cent in the last four weeks, the first drop since March last year, as shoppers return to physical stores more often.

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