The charts below show the percentage of food and goods bought from supermarkets in European countries in 1998 and 2008.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided bar charts compare three European countries in terms of the percentage of food and goods purchased from supermarkets between 1998 and 2008.

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, it can be seen clearly that over the following 10 years, three countries all witnessed an increase in both

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A stayed on top,

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consumed the least food and goods up to 2008. To be more specific, in 1998, the

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B stood at the top position

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24%,

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it increased considerably to nearly 28% up to 2008. Over the same period of time,

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grew slightly from 6% to 8%, the

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A soared from 10% to exactly 35%. In the second chart,

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held the highest

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for goods consumption with approximately 35% in 1998,

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it rose slightly to 26% during the following 10 years. Simultaneously,

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A and

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witnessed the same trend. Both of these countries soared up, from 1% to 15% with

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and from 4% to nearly 40% with

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