Dunnes Stores Top Irish Supermarket - March 2017

The latest survey from Kantor Worldpanel show that Dunnes Stores has increased its grocery market share from 22.9% in the 12 weeks up to February 26 2017. The same time last year the market share was 22.5%.

Sales in Dunnes increased by 4.6% over the period helped by consumers spending an extra €3 per shopping trip.

Supervalu are right behind with a 22.6% market share. They managed to increase sales by 0.5% or an extra €1 per trip.

Lidl and Aldi have also continued to increased their share up to 10.6% and 10.8% respectively.

Most of these gains have been at the expense of Tesco which has suffered a drop in sales of 1%, mostly due to 11 strike days during the period. Tesco's market share has fallen from 22.6% to 21.7%.