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According to the latest Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded April 28-29, 2023, overall eGrocery sales for April 2023 totaled $8.2 billion, up 0.9%, versus a year ago.

A new report examining where and how shoppers choose to buy groceries online found that while the overall base of average monthly users in the U.S. has increased by nearly 3 percentage points, the online penetration of Supermarkets declined by 2 points in 2022 compared to 2021 levels.

The year-over-year decline was driven by the large core eGrocery segments of delivery and pickup, which contracted 7.4% and 8.5% respectively, as well as ship-to-home which fell 5.9%.

The U.S. online grocery market finished last month with $8.8 billion in total sales, up 1.5% compared to last year, according to the monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded February 26-27, 2023.

The U.S. online grocery market finished January with $8.4 billion in total sales, down 1.2% compared to last year, according to the monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded January 30-31, 2023.

U.S. online grocery sales are forecast to grow at a compound average growth rate (CAGR) of 11.7% over the next five years, increasing online’s share of overall grocery spending from 11.2% in 2022 to 13.6% in 2027, according to the 2023 Brick Meets Click/Mercatus 5-Year Grocery Sales Forecast.

The U.S. online grocery market finished December with $9.1 billion in total sales, up 2.4% compared to a year ago, and only 2% lower than the record high of $9.3 Billion last seen in Q1 of 2021, according to the monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded December 28-29, 2022.

The U.S. online grocery market finished November with $7.7 billion in total sales, down 10% compared to a year ago, but only 2% lower than the $7.8 billion reported for the two prior months, according to the monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded November 29-30, 2022.

During October, and unlike the prior month, all three segments (Pickup, Delivery, and Ship-to-Home) experienced slowdowns in spending per transaction, declining 5% in aggregate versus the same period last year.

Customers who had a positive online grocery customer experience were 2.2 times more likely to use that service more often than those who had a negative experience, according to Omnichannel Shopper Behavior Report 2022 Vol 3, from Mercatus, fielded October 6 - 10, 2022.