The days of trudging round the supermarkets fighting for the best-looking tomatoes are over. More and more of us are relying on our computers to bring home the groceries.

Britain is streets ahead of the rest of Europe in terms of shopping online, with internet sales topping £1billion a month, a report reveals.

Online sales in Britain were worth £12.8billion last year, compared with £10.3billion for Germany, the next most enthusiastic nation of e-shoppers, said researchers Mintel.

France came in third, raking in £5.5billion through online sales, while Italy and Spain were slower to catch on to the digital shopping revolution with annual internet revenues of just £870million and £790million, respectively.

The figures are perhaps not surprising given that Britain also has the highest rate of growth in online shopping – a 75 per cent increase in revenue between 2005 and 2007. And further growth of 199 per cent is predicted by 2012.

Mintel retail research head Richard Perks said Britain had ‘the most developed online market in Europe’ thanks to the ’sophisticated offerings’ of British food retailers.

Mr Perks said the rise in Britons using the internet for weekly shopping and consumer boom in recent years had also played a part. Tesco is the biggest online food retailer in Europe, with most of its turnover coming from groceries. Its website enjoyed revenues more than twice as high as its closest European rival, French retailer Carrefour.

(Taken from metro.co.uk March 30th 2008)

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