Strong sales of canned cocktails and Irn-Bru help retailer beat forecasts – and sunshine made people spend
The weather will have more impact on grocery sales than home nation World Cup wins, according to the boss of Tesco, as it said UK sales growth more than halved during a rainy spring and the Middle East conflict.
Ken Murphy, the chief executive of the UK’s biggest retailer, said the rainy conditions for much of this spring – compared with a long spell of sunshine last year – had a larger effect on spending habits than the football or the Iran war, despite the latter creating “ongoing uncertainty for many households”.
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