‘Mindless munching’ sees sweet sales soar

Brits have munched their way through 120 million more boxes, bags and bars of sweets and chocolates in the past year. Supermarket sales of sweets soared almost 5% year-on-year to a whopping 2.9 billion packs, while the value of the market rocketed 7.4% to £3.2bn as so-called 'mindless munchers' have taken to guzzling bigger bags of confectionery at home rather than snacking on smaller packs while out and about.