date:Jul 08, 2013
Discounters and Waitrose are continuing to enjoy the best of retail sales, according to the latest trading figures published by Nielsen.
It claimed that for the 12 weeks ending June 22 Aldi saw the greatest increase of all retailers up 24.3% in value year-on-year, Iceland saw value sales up 4.4% and Lidl enjoyed 3.4% growth.
But whilst aggregate sales value growth for the UK's major supermarkets in the four weeks to June 22 was up 2.3% year-on-year, Waitrose bucked the trend with a storming 8.