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DUNNES STORES and Aldi saw the biggest gains of any supermarkets in the Christmas shopping market – increasing their share at the expense of smaller outlets, new figures show.
Data published by Kantar Worldpanel shows the two chains enjoying a significant increase in their share of the grocery market for the Christmas 2012 period, compared to the equivalent period in 2011.
Dunnes increased its market share from 23.9 per cent to 24.3 per cent, while Aldi grew its share from 4.7 per cent to 6.0 per cent – overtaking its discount rival Lidl in the process, the first time it has done so.
Tesco remained the most popular supermarket chain in the 12 weeks running up to Sunday 23 December, maintaining its share at 27.8 per cent, while Dunnes’ share of 24.3 per cent cements its second-place status.
Both SuperValu and Superquinn saw their share of the market fall by 0.3 per cent when compared to the equivalent 12-week period of 2011; SuperValu’s share of the market is now 10.5 per cent, while Superquinn’s is 5.1 per cent, making it the smallest of the six main supermarket chains in Ireland.
Aldi’s year-on-year gain is the highest of any supermarket; its 1.3 per cent increase equates to a 30 per cent increase in sales on a year-on-year basis.
Lidl’s share meanwhile grew by 0.1 per cent to 5.9 per cent.
Kantar’s figures also showed that the grocery market grew by 0.3 per cent between the two Christmas seasons, slightly offsetting the losses made by SuperValu and Superquinn.
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Loyalists have to be made to understand, that times have changed. They should not be able to get away with their terrorist tactics as they did in the past. The Brits must be made to rein them in.
Loyalists up to their old tricks again but I wonder will we see any condemnation from the republican haters on this site? Loyalists hate the press as they are constantly being investigated for their criminality and links to the security forces. Their actions are largely ignored in the Republic where the focus is on one party’s fairy tale links to all sorts of innuendo and a non existent “threat” from a now disbanded former paramilitary army. That still doesn’t stop the “chicken lickin” scare stories being bandied about by people who refuse to move with the times. Printer cartridges and roll calls are after all more important than an ongoing threat from an organized criminal gang that intimidates and assaults people and communities on a regular basis.
Luckily we have reporters who do keep up to date and keep up the pressure on the UDA (who haven’t gone away you know!). The UDA obviously don’t like their continuing existence being brought up seeing as it shows that they are still active in “community development” such as extortion, drug dealing, racketeering and other crime. Hopefully the Press will launch a major campaign in support of one of their own and get this threat lifted.
I’d safely say the “Republican Haters” you refer to are more haters of all terrorist/criminal groups and not just Republiian groups.
Why did they issue a threat?? What did the journalist do or find out to get them that annoyed??
Probably one of two things. Criminality or collusion. It might also be linked to the intimidation of Catholics and Polish people in South Antrim. A number of pipe bombs have been left there by Loyalists over the past couple of years to try and clear the area of Catholics. The usual deranged idiots who are clueless about current affairs would have you believe it was SF or the non-existent Provo’s that were trying to drive the Catholics out! but luckily enough there are people who (like this journalist) keep up to date and are not afraid to take a balanced view of the world.
The UDA have quite happily being lurking in the shadows for a while, watching all the focus on Republicans while the UDA live off their ill gotten gains. Now that the focus has shifted to them they are not happy and no amount of empathy and hysterical rants from Southern anti-Republicans is going to take the spotlight off them. Even the Irish Independent ran the story and surly that must be a major worry to the Brigadiers up North.
Loyalists need to realise that times have changed , and they can no longer get away with their terrorist tactics, as they did in the past. The Brits should rein them in
Comments not getting posted on this one, something wrong?????
UDA denies making death threat to journalist
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0820/uda-in-death-threat-to-belfast-based-journalist.html
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