(ANSA) - ROME, 11 JUN - Fresh fish and bubbles are the most popular products in the first quarter of 2021, with purchases up by 21% and 55% respectively. While waiting for the restaurants to reopen in full swing, Italians at home are aiming for the gourmet. This is what emerges from the Ismea-Nielsen panel, according to which, compared to the picture of the beginning of the pandemic, the shopping cart changes even in everyday life. For the first time, in fact, fresh products in bulk compared to packaged products (+ 2.5%) and above all drinks (+ 13%) compared to foodstuffs (+ 1.7%) were driving the 3.7% growth. ). Spending on food and beverages, after closing last year with + 7.4%, recorded a further growth of almost 3% over the first three months of 2020, still standing at 12% above a normal year such as 2019 .This is still affected by the continuing restrictions on sociability and the limitations of the Horeca channel, a trend destined to fade with the progressive reopening but which, according to Ismea, will not be completely exhausted, also due to the widespread use of home-working which has moved part of the consumption of the non-domestic appliance within the walls of the house.
The context of greater confidence towards an ever closer exit from restrictions, according to Ismea, gives new impetus to products that act "as compensation for deprivation, making not only sparkling wines fly, but also wine, beer and in general the whole category of The sector of animal origin proteins, after the restart in 2020, (+ 9.8% meat, and + 8.3% cured meats) recorded a new increase of 1.3% and 4 respectively Cured meats, 2%. Eggs, after the jump of 14.5% in 2020, opens 2021 with a decline of 4.3%, while maintaining a positive gap on the spending levels of the pre-covid period. (ANSA) .
