The two bar charts compare the proportion of food and products bought from supermarket in three different countries, from country A to B and C in European between 1998 and 2008.
Overall, all sales figures in the three countries experienced significant growth in 6 years.
Country A had the most noticeable change, which had the lowest share of both food and goods bought in supermarkets in 1998 but overtook the other two countries by 2008. Meanwhile, the consumption of food and goods in country B stayed relatively stable.
Regarding the food consumption in country A, which its figure rose dramatically from 10% in 1998 to 35% in 2008, becoming the highest rate from others country. Turning to country B, the percentage of food purchases saw a moderate increase, starting at around 22% in 1998 and climbed to approximately 27% in 2008. In country C, by comparison, the proportion of groceries bought in the supermarket was the smallest of all three countries, this data increased roughly from 6% to 8% at the end of the period.
The same pattern was delineated in the procedure of goods category, which means that Country A still had it number of consumption in the market dominant, surged from around six to 40 percent. The figure for goods bought in the supermarket in country A also exceeded that of country B, which grew slightly from just around 23% to nearly 27% in 2008. Lastly, the rate of good purchases showed a completely different trend from food purchases, soaring to almost 15% in 2008 from negligible level in 1998.