date:Dec 28, 2012
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Coles reported shoppers bought 23 million tonnes of Australian-grown fresh fruit and vegies at stores nationally over the Christmas week.
That's about 40 per cent up on a normal week.
Coles said 1.8 million punnets of Australian berries, nearly half a million kilograms of cherries and almost one million kilograms of grapes were sold in the lead up to Christmas Day.
Demand for ham also skyrocketed as expected, with shoppers buying two million kilograms of Australian ham at Coles.
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