Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 25-Oct-16

The latest quarterly Supermarket Currency report from Roy Morgan Research shows that Australia’s grocery buyers spent $A89.8bn at supermarkets during the 12 months to September 2016. This represents 87 per cent of the $A103bn spent on groceries overall. Roy Morgan Research estimates that Australians spent $A32.6bn at Woolworths in the past 12 months – 36.3 per cent of all supermarket expenditure nationally. This is down $A825m compared with the previous year, representing a decline in market share of 1.4 percentage points. Meanwhile, grocery shoppers spent $A29.8bn at Coles in the last year, $A1.1bn more than the year before. Coles gained 0.9 percentage points in market share, to 33.2 per cent. Aldi took in 12.5 per cent of Australia’s supermarket dollars ($A11.2bn), ahead of IGA with 9.8 per cent ($A8.8bn).

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