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3 March 2021 • 6:00am
A takeaway food courier working for Deliveroo stops in London s Chinatown district in September 2020
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On a remote country lane, car headlights are reflected off an unusual sight for the rural south west: the fluorescent silver jacket of a Deliveroo rider pedalling through the dark.
The town of Dorchester is roughly 120 miles away from Deliveroo s London HQ, where the company first started trying to re-define takeaway as all restaurant food, beyond the staples of just pizza and Chinese.
5th February 2021
New data suggests that total UK food and drink sales declined by 12% during 2020, while grocery retail’s share of the market grew to 81% from 64% the year before.
The figures from IGD’s ‘Eating In vs Dining Out 2021’ report also show the eating out sector shrank by more than 50% after restaurants and pubs were closed for much of the year.
Nicola Knight, Senior Retail Analyst at IGD, commented: “Food and drink retail sales grew by 9.9% in 2020 and e-commerce was the clear winner in the sector as shoppers switched to online due to lockdown restrictions and stay-at-home guidance. But the overall food and drink market declined by 12%, predominantly driven by consumers eating more meals at home due to government closures within the eating out sector.”