Grocery sales Christmas vs Lockdown

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This graphic is from The Economist and shows the sale of certain foods at Christmas vs the start of Lockdown. Might be worth considering this when sorting out your local lockdown or Brexit stash.

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Thanks OP great to have statistics to look at. Extremely surprised eggs didn't increase further, as flour went up so much, and so much baking was taking place!

Eggs are such a cheap quick meal I'm surprised that they didn't increase too.

I guess there was more bread being baked than cake ?

Wasn't there a problem with cardboard egg boxes, similar to the problem with flour not being the shortage, it was the 1kg bags to package it in? Eggs were in our local supermarket packaged in those plastic boxes, which I hadn't seen in years.

Can't speak for anyone else but we had a lot of cake Netflix

The egg farm local to me lost a lot of catering trade. He set up pop up shops in local villages and has done well. Previously small farm shops also increased their offering and online presence, telling people they were open and what they were selling. Some managed deliveries/boxes to cars.

We struggled at the start, being rural and not wanting to travel to shop, but small businesses really rose to the occasion and many of us are going to continue to support them.

Agree on the small businesses. I live in a town centre so no problem walking to shops, but some of the smallest shops are really making a difference.

They've gone online so that you can place your order and then just pick that up from the doorway. Minimises contact, makes it safer for them to stay open and stay in business.

One local baker has also become a bit of a deli/grocer - all the stuff he used to use in his filled rolls at lunchtime etc., he now sells directly. So his suppliers are still supplying and both of them are still making money.

A zero-waste shop has teamed up with a delivery driver so that customers who can't get to her can still buy from her.

I am definitely staying loyal to my small locals. They really made a difference during lockdown and still do.