E.Leclerc Continues To Lead The French Grocery Market

The retailer attracted 525,000 additional customers in this period and its customer loyalty increased by 1.5 percentage points.

In July, the French supermarket chain agreed to acquire 27 stores in Luxembourg from Louis Delhaize Group, for an undisclosed amount, which will see it open its first stores in Luxembourg, where it currently has no presence.

Elsewhere, the Les Mousquetaires Group’s market share rose to 16.2% as it gained 0.5 percentage points.

Groupement U reported growth of 0.4 percentage points to acquire 11.7% of the market share in the last nine months.

Household Expenditure

Data from Kantar also unveiled that French households spent an additional 7.7% in the grocery channel in this period.

The online channel accounted for 9.2% of the spending, registering growth of 0.5 percentage points, driven by the Drives platform.

The internet channel reached an additional 480,000 households, data showed.

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