Online sales soared by a staggering 48.5% thanks to booming demand from customers staying at home. FMTNews
LONDON: British supermarket giant Tesco announced Friday that its first-quarter sales jumped 8%, boosted by rocketing online purchases as people switched to grocery deliveries during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
The bumper performance came after the government imposed a lockdown on March 23 in a bid to halt the Covid-19 outbreak. Restrictions began to be eased this month. He added: “We doubled our online capacity to help support our most vulnerable customers and transformed our stores with extensive social distancing measures so that everyone who was able to shop in-store could do so safely.
Tesco said it has grown its online business “as quickly as possible” in response to “significantly increased demand”.
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