Great Britain: online share of retail sales monthly 2024

The share of food retail sales made online in predominantly food stores in Great Britain saw its biggest growth in January 2021, when the coronavirus (COVID-19) containment measures were tightened in the United Kingdom. Since then, the proportion of online food retail slowly decreased. Most recent figures showed that share of food retail sales made online was at around nine percent in March 2024.

Internet sales as a proportion of all food retail sales in Great Britain from January 2018 to March 2024

Characteristic	Share of food sales made online
Mar '24	8.9%
Feb '24	8.7%
Jan '24	8.6%
Dec '23	8.8%
Nov '23	9.1%
Oct '23	9.1%
Sep '23	9.2%
Aug '23	9.2%
Jul '23	9.2%
Jun '23	8.9%
May '23	9.3%
Apr '23	9%
Mar '23	8.8%
Feb '23	8.8%
Jan '23	8.8%
Dec '22	9.2%
Nov '22	9.3%
Oct '22	9.3%
Sep '22	8.9%
Aug '22	8.9%
Jul '22	9%
Jun '22	9%
May '22	9.3%
Apr '22	9.3%
Mar '22	9.3%
Feb '22	9.3%
Jan '22	9.4%
Dec '21	10.7%
Nov '21	9.9%
Oct '21	10.2%
Sep '21	10.5%
Aug '21	10.6%
Jul '21	10.7%
Jun '21	10.5%
May '21	10.8%
Apr '21	10.4%
Mar '21	11.2%
Feb '21	11.6%
Jan '21	12%
Dec '20	11.3%
Nov '20	10.6%
Oct '20	10.6%
Sep '20	10.4%
Aug '20	10.6%
Jul '20	10.9%
Jun '20	11%
May '20	11.2%
Apr '20	9.3%
Mar '20	5.6%
Feb '20	5.2%
Jan '20	5.2%
Dec '19	5%
Nov '19	5.3%
Oct '19	5.5%
Sep '19	5.6%
Aug '19	5.8%
Jul '19	5.5%
Jun '19	5.2%
May '19	5.4%
Apr '19	5.5%
Mar '19	5.3%
Feb '19	5.4%
Jan '19	5.4%
Dec '18	5.5%
Nov '18	5.6%
Oct '18	5.5%
Sep '18	5.5%
Aug '18	5.5%
Jul '18	5.6%
Jun '18	5.7%
May '18	5.7%
Apr '18	5.6%
Mar '18	5.6%
Feb '18	5.6%
Jan '18	5.4%

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Release date

April 2024

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

January 2018 to March 2024

Special properties

values are seasonally adjusted

Supplementary notes

This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

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