Stockpiling for Virus Lifts U.K. Supermarket Sales to Record

A customer walks past empty shelves after sugar, flour, bread and cakes products sold out in a J Sainsbury Plc supermarket in London, on March 17.

Photographer: Bryn Colton/Bloomberg
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Coronavirus-driven stockpiling by Britons girding for a nationwide lockdown lifted U.K. grocery sales to a record in March, according to research firm Kantar.