Tesco and Asda continued to underperform the market in the latest grocery figures from Kantar Worldpanel.

For the 12 weeks to August 8, Tesco and Asda saw a dip in their share by 0.2% and 0.3% respectively. By contrast, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons both increased their market share by 0.2%.

Kantar said the whole market saw healthy growth up 4.5% boosted by food price inflation which crept up again in August for the third month running.

Edward Garner, communications director at Kantar Worldpanel, said: “Morrisons in particular has shown a strong performance this month.  Despite some commentators expecting the Morrisons growth to run out of steam it still comfortably leads the top four in terms of year-on-year performance with growth of 6.9%.”

Despite Aldi experiencing a boost in the last couple of months, the discounters as a whole are still struggling to increase their share of consumers’ wallets, with their total market share remaining at 6% for the last two years.

The Co-op’s market share has increased from 5.5% to 6.4% in the period, as it continues to rebrand Somerfield stores to Co-op.

Food inflation for the period was 2.2%.

 12 Weeks to
9 August 2009		12 Weeks to
8 August 2010		change
 £000s% *£000s% *%
Total Till Roll28,713,540 29,861,280 4
Total Grocers21,503,330100.00%22,480,010100.00%4.5
Total Multiples21,035,70097.80%21,973,02097.70%4.5
Tesco6,666,70331.00%6,925,13330.80%3.9
Asda3,688,58617.20%3,794,30616.90%2.9
Sainsbury’s3,420,06815.90%3,620,29616.10%5.9
Morrisons2,444,00611.40%2,611,49211.60%6.9
Co-operative1,183,8905.50%1,444,3426.40%22
Somerfield575,3852.70%266,3331.20%-53.7
Waitrose836,7723.90%921,4054.10%10.1
Iceland368,9931.70%408,6881.80%10.8
Aldi643,2543.00%666,7693.00%3.7
Lidl504,3022.30%530,0362.40%5.1
Netto158,1510.70%151,6500.70%-4.1
Farm Foods115,6480.50%137,5610.60%18.9
Other Multiples429,9482.00%495,0082.20%15.1
Symbols & Independents467,6242.20%506,9912.30%8.4

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