Who’s winning the food fight

The pandemic has had a major impact on supermarket shopping habits – first in the rush for loo paper and pantry staples in the first lockdown, and then in a tendency for people to stay away from shopping centres and shop more locally. It all meant that the big supermarkets outperformed the independents in the second half of the 2020 financial year before underperforming in every quarter of 2021 (see graph on page 85).

The comparisons in the latest result