In May the number of tickets that included the purchase of water bottled at points of sale in Montevideo and Canelones compared to April, as reported by the retail consumer monitor Scanntech. In addition, the number of tickets that took only bottled water from the premises increased by 50%details the analysis of consumption over the last closed month.
At the same time, During May, 30% more budget was allocated to the purchase of water by Uruguayan consumers, added the report from the payment software company. In 38% of the purchases that month, consumers took two units or more of water, thus doubling the values for the month of April.
Regarding the year-on-year increase in the purchase of bottled water, May 2023 closed with a growth of 224% compared to the same month of the previous year.
The greatest growth was observed in still bottled water, which practically multiplied by six —precisely 5.7— if the consumption of May of this year is compared with that of May 2022. Drums, meanwhile, were the second recipient to multiply their year-on-year sales. The consumption of water under this presentation is tripled. In third place was bottled sparkling water, whose consumption also more than doubled in that period.
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Sales variation in volume vs. same day of the week of the previous year.
If analyzed by geographical area of Montevideo, “greater growth is observed in the northern and western areas of the capital”, details the analysis. If the volume of bottled water sales is compared between May 2023 and 2022, the neighborhoods that consumed the most were those located in municipality A (324% increase). The one that did the least was CH, whose growth in terms of volume was 162%.
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Sales variation in volume vs. same day of the week of the previous year.
Scanntech’s report is based on a selection of a panel of 1,700 points of sale in Montevideo and Canelones that integrate the system of this payment software.
