How to support Cork’s local producers in your weekly shopping KATE RYAN of Flavour.ie takes a look at how some of Ireland’s big supermarkets are supporting local producers here in Cork through different programmes and academies Cathal and Declan Allen of Ballyvourney Sausages, who are selling their produce in Aldi over the coming weeks. Kate Ryan THE Irish supermarket sector is booming. In Ireland, consumers spent an additional €2bn in groceries alone as lockdowns ensured our lives were ever more centred around eating at home. Despite 2020 becoming the year for online shops, click and collect, farmers’ markets, and alternative food networks such as Neighbourfood, it is the so-called Big Five supermarkets that still take the lion’s share of our grocery spend.