Average monthly grocery basket value in the UK from May 2017 to June 2018

In June 2018, the price of the average grocery basket amounted to 85.64 British pounds in the United Kingdom. Compared to the same month of the previous year this constitutes an increase of 2.6 British pounds. The basket value had been higher in three different months prior to June 2018. The entire grocery market in the UK was estimated to be worth 193.6 billion pounds.

The leader on the British grocery market

Tesco has been the leading grocery retailer in Great Britain for over five years running. However, in September 2019 the company had their lowest market share since the beginning of 2015. Since then the company managed to recover about 0.4 percent of its market share. Tesco operated 3,961 stores in the UK and Ireland.

The Irish market

Tesco is also a relevant operator of grocery stores in Ireland as well and was able to claim a market share of 21.4 percent for the year ending in September of 2019. The company shared the second place on the market with SuperValu and both companies had a market share that was less than one percent smaller than that of the market leader Dunnes.