Big shop Back, due to Covid-19: the weekly ‘big shop’. Hello again, shopping lists. We’ve reverted to how we shopped for 50 years, until we stopped 10 years ago – one big weekly food shop. UK supermarkets report April transactions halved, while amounts bought doubled. Bye bye, little & often top-ups and trolley downsizing Guessed…
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Organic food 1962: 1st ‘no birdsong’ alarm on chemical pesticide dangers. 2019 – UK organic food market in 8th year of growth, on target to reach £2.5bn ($3.2bn, €2.9bn) in 2020. Demand spreading from fruit & veg to other groceries, fish & dairy. 2018 growth of 5.3% outstripped non-organic, driven by independent shops, home delivery…