18-05-2020 18:04 via uk.finance.yahoo.com

Walmart trailed supermarkets amid peak panic-buying - data

Americans increased their visits to supermarkets far more than to Walmart Incstores as panic-buying peaked in mid-March, a Reuters analysis of foot traffic to retailers in the United States shows.Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart gets more than half its U.S. revenue from grocery sales.Reuters compared foot traffic observed by SafeGraph from the first week of March through early May. SafeGraph compiles anonymized location data from mobile devices and compares it with building footprints to meas
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