Tesco has announced record sales for fruit as the warm weather has seen customers wanting to stay hydrated.
Tesco said they have seen an “unprecedented” increase of 10% over the past three weeks for watermelons, grapes, bananas and Kiwis among many that has led to record growth.
Tesco fruit category buying manager Simon Reeves said, “The extra demand for fruit that we’ve seen during the recent heatwaves in the last month has been unprecedented and is the highest we’ve ever seen within a three week period.
“The quality of the fruit from our growers including our berry and cherry growers here in the UK has been especially good this year on account of the extra sunshine and daylight hours which has also helped create such strong demand.
“We have been working with our fruit suppliers to make sure that our stores are well stocked as we expect demand to once again be very strong over the coming days.”
