Hordes of shoppers are set to flock to stores ahead of the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday, making it a bigger sales period than Christmas. People will be raising a toast to the occasion as wine sales at convenience retailer Co-op set to be 10 per cent higher than the festive period.
The store chain expects to sell 500,000 bottles of sparkling wine, 30,000 bottles of Champagne and double the amount of English fizz. Boxed wine is also set to be a winner as people are planning to get together with friends and family.
Sales of burgers and sausages are set to increase by 125 per cent, with the convenience retailer expecting to sell 500,000 sausages with many households planning a BBQ during the holiday. Some 400,000 more packets of crisps, snacks and nuts are set to be sold at Co-op, 25 per cent more than normal, with packets of larger sharing snacks set to be up 20 per cent.
