Supermarkets sell more than a quarter of all the CDs and DVDs bought in the UK. That statistic was revealed in a new survey on consumers' spending habits, which found that the major supermarket chains have doubled their sales of non-food goods in the last five years. Other products being increasingly bought in supermarkets include clothing, books and computer games.
Lucy Burton of TNS World Panel, who conducted the survey, said: "Supermarkets are rapidly becoming a shopping destination in their own right for products such as DVDs and CDs, rather than them simply being added to the trolley."
As previously reported, when reporting disappointing financial figures early this year, HMV partly blamed its struggling performance on tough competition on mainstream releases by the supermarkets, coupled with increasing price-cutting competition on back catalogue music from online retailers like Amazon and Play.com.