# UK’s Sainsbury’s says weak non-food weighs on quarterly sales growth
Published: 2024-07-02
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## UK’s Sainsbury’s says weak non-food weighs on quarterly sales growth

LONDON (Reuters) -Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second largest supermarket group, kept its annual financial guidance as it reported a 3% rise in first-quarter underlying [sales,](https://tradingherald.com/car-sales-push-irish-retail-sales-sharply-higher-again/) though robust grocery sales were partially offset by weather-related weakness in non-food areas.

The group which, with a UK market share of 15.2%, trails only Tesco, said [grocery](https://tradingherald.com/sainsburys-bumper-christmas-for-food-offset-by-weakness-elsewhere/) sales rose 4.8% in the 16 weeks to June 22.

However, general merchandise and clothing sales fell 4.3% and sales at the group’s Argos business fell 6.2%, reflecting both poor early summer weather which dented sales of seasonal categories and strength in [sales](https://tradingherald.com/car-sales-push-irish-retail-sales-sharply-higher-again/) in the same period last year.

Sainsbury’s said it still expected full-year 2024/25 retail underlying operating profit of between 1.01 billion and 1.06 billion pounds ($1.28-$1.34 billion), which would be growth of 5% to 10%.

“We are pleased with our market-beating [grocery](https://tradingherald.com/sainsburys-bumper-christmas-for-food-offset-by-weakness-elsewhere/) performance,” Chief Executive Simon Roberts said.

“We’ve been winning from competitors every month for 15 months, as more and more people are choosing [Sainsbury’s](https://tradingherald.com/sainsburys-pays-524-million-for-full-ownership-of-store-investment-vehicles/) for their big weekly shop.”

($1 = 0.7914 pounds)

(Reporting by James Davey; Editing by Kate Holton and Sachin Ravikumar)


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