Lockdown boosts supermarket turnover to record | Financial

Consumers filled their shopping carts more than ever last week.

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Rotterdam – The forced closure of non-essential stores and the hospitality industry has delivered record sales for the supermarket sector. Last week, the first of a five-week lockdown, the supers turned in $ 1.02 billion. This means that the old top score, from December 2017, is out of the books.

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