Seafood sales help deliver a record Christmas for UK checkouts

New U.K. grocery market share figures issued by Kantar Worldpanel for the 12 weeks ending 1 January 2017, show the fastest recorded retail growth since June 2014, thanks to an additional consumer spend of GBP 480 million (USD 590.6 million, EUR 552.9 million) increasing total supermarket sales by 1.8 percent.

Year-on-year market growth has been helped by comparisons to a weaker Christmas in 2015, but sales were also buoyed by strong consumer appetite for festive celebration after a turbulent ye…