Cigarettes and junk food dominate supermarket sales growth

By Mark Hawthorne, Senior Editor
Updated November 22 2014 - 2:38pm, first published 1:00pm
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Australians now spend 10 per cent of the nation's annual grocery bill on tobacco products, and one in every five dollars spent at supermarkets goes on cigarettes or junk food, according to confidential industry data.