The provided charts compare the proportion among food and goods bought in supermarkets in 3 different European nations between 1998 and 2008.
Regarding the food bought graphs, there is a substantial rose by a fifth in the percentage of food sold from 1998 and 2008. Meanwhile, both figures for country 2 and 3 showed a slight increase which is approximately 3% and 2% respectively at the same period of time.
In terms of goods bought, statistics of country 1 & 3 witnessed a dramatical gaps by 35% and 14% respectively in the comparison of the year 1998 and after a decade (2008), indicating the growth of consumers’ expenditure in these countries. On the contrary, the proportion of goods sold in country 2 remained stable from 24% to 25% from 1998 to 2008.
Looking from an overall perspective, in Europe, country 2 is represented with no remarkable growth after 10 years period starting from 1998. The opposite was true for country 1, the expense from people for food and goods in this country both enormous develop.