Worldpanel by Numerator data for the 12 weeks to 13 July shows grocery price inflation has increased to 5.43%, up from 5.3% in the previous 12-week period.

Irish consumer spend on groceries was up by €57.4m in the four weeks to 13 July, with shoppers making around 22 trips to stores, but picking up fewer packs per trip.

The calculation is based on over 30,000 identical products compared year on year in the proportions purchased by Irish shoppers.

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Worldpanel by Numerator says this “represents the most authoritative figure currently available”.

Overall market

While the overall market grew by 5.8%, spend on branded products grew by just 3.7% or an additional €59m of spend.

Sales of own-label products were up 6.7%, with premium own-label performing particularly well, with sales up 16.2%.

The overall split in sales was 46.5% of purchases being brands, with 47.9% being own label.

Route to market

Online sales now represent 5.7% of the market, with sales rising by 8.1% year on year.

As for market share held by the main retailers, Dunnes remains at the top with 23.4% market share and with sales growth of 6.9% year on year.

Tesco has 23.4% share of the market, while Supervalu holds 20.2% of the market.

It was a particularly strong period for Lidl, which now has 14.2% of the market, a record share for the company, while Aldi has 12% market share.