{"id":22499,"date":"2025-08-25T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/22499\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:21:11","slug":"grocery-prices-up-almost-6-new-figures-suggest-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/22499\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery prices up almost 6%, new figures suggest \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cost of groceries<\/a> has continued to climb, with supermarket inflation put at just under 6 per cent or more than three times the rate of general inflation.<\/p>\n

According to the latest research from retail analysts Kantar<\/a> Worldpanel, alcohol sales soared during the summer as a result of a raft of outdoor events from the Galway Races and the All Together Now festival to the Oasis and Robbie Williams concerts in Croke Park. <\/p>\n

The data highlight how the cost of living crisis is a long way from over with the year-on-year rate of grocery inflation climbing to 5.9 per cent compared with 5.4 per cent recorded four weeks ago.<\/p>\n

While the current rate is a long way adrift of the rate of almost 17 per cent, which Kantar reported at the height of the crisis two years ago, the latest price hikes come on top of \u2013 and not instead of \u2013 previously high inflation and mean most households are worse off by in excess of \u20ac3,000 a year. <\/p>\n

Despite higher prices, Kantar\u2019s data suggest that Irish consumers have been enjoying a summer of racing, concerts and festivals with alcohol sales up \u20ac7.2 million when compared with this time last year.<\/p>\n

Kantar described August as \u201ca month of dancing, singing and celebrating as Irish shoppers contributed an additional \u20ac68.2 million to the grocery market\u2019s overall performance\u201d.<\/p>\n

Take-home value sales rose 6.2 per cent over the four weeks to the middle of August.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIrish social calendars have been overflowing with consumers enjoying the last of the summer sun, spending a whopping \u20ac7.2 million extra on alcohol and an additional \u20ac1.3 million on sun care,\u201d said Kantar\u2019s Emer Healy.<\/p>\n

\u201cShoppers also indulged in other ways, spending an additional \u20ac8.9 million on take-home soft drinks and chocolate. With such busy calendars, it\u2019s clear that shoppers needed a bit of an energy boost with nearly \u20ac1 million more spent on sports and energy drinks compared to the same time last year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

According to Kantar, shoppers spent \u20ac735 million on promotional lines during the latest 12-week period, an 8.9 per cent increase compared to the previous year. Brands have grown behind the total market, up 5.7 pre cent, with growth slowing to 3.7 per cent.<\/p>\n

\"\"Why is Ireland not considered a truly rich country?<\/p>\n

Brands currently hold 47 per cent value share of the total market with own-label at 47.1 per cent value share.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the supermarket stakes, Dunnes<\/a> holds 23.5 per cent market share, with sales growth of 6.3 per cent year-on-year. Tesco<\/a> was next with a share of 23.4 per cent with value growth of 5.6 per cent year-on-year. <\/p>\n

SuperValu<\/a> holds 19.7 per cent of the market with growth of 4.2 per cent. <\/p>\n

Lidl<\/a> has 14.2 per cent of the market with growth of 9.5 per cent while Aldi<\/a> holds 11.8 per cent market share, up 4.4 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of groceries has continued to climb, with supermarket inflation put at just under 6 per cent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2189,79,2190,19264,18,19,17,19268,19267,19266,19265],"class_list":{"0":"post-22499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-aldi","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-dunnes-stores","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-kantar","16":"tag-lidl","17":"tag-supervalu","18":"tag-tesco"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}