He believes that as the crisis recedes, so will online grocery penetration, not back to pre-COVID-19 levels of 7% but a lot less than 16%. “I was forced into online shopping with the first lockdown,” he said. Related CoverageFactbox: Britain’s online grocery boom“I thought, you can’t isolate all the time – let’s get out there and start living again,” he said. GROWTH ON GROWTHOcado’s Steiner told Reuters that once customers have experienced the ease of online shopping, they are likely to be converted and he expected online grocery in Britain would double in size again over the next few years. Kantar’s McKevitt said he expected online grocery demand to taper, at least in the short term.

Source: Egypt Independent March 01, 2021 07:07 UTC