The given bar charts depict the proportion of consuming food and goods in supermarkets in 3 European countries between 1998 and 2008. Overall, while the percentage of people buying food and goods in country 2 remained equivalent, countries 1 and 3 experienced a huge gap in those of in the 2 years. Noticeably, 2008 always accounted for the highest proportion of people’s demands for buying food and goods.
Regarding the supermarket food buying habitat of European people, while country 2 had an increase in food sales from 23% in 1998 to just over 25% in 2008, country 1 saw a subtantial gap in that proportion between 2 years, with a 25% increase from 10% to 35%. The food sales of country 3 rose slightly from about 6% to nearly 8% in 1998 and 2008 respectively.
The proportion of goods purchased in supermarket in those 3 countries also had a similar trend toward food sales. The country 2 still managed to have a slight increase in their stuff sales starting from just under 25% in 1998 to more than 27% in 208. The percentage of consumers who chose to buy goods from the country 1 in 2008 also surpassed that of 1998, with a nearly 35% disparity from just under 5% to 39%. In country 3, the percentage of goods that were sold in 2008 increased significantly from 2% in 1998 to nearly 15% in 2008.