Tag: retail sales numbers

While shopping patterns are normalizing, food spending at retail remains highly elevated across most departments.

Excluding weeks that were affected by the 2019 or 2020 holiday demand, everyday demand is normalizing at around 10% above year ago levels.

For the week of August 30, fresh fruit and vegetable sales increased 4.7% over 2019. Frozen fruits and vegetables had a much higher percentage increase, at +17.7% but is the smallest of the three temperature zones.

Anne-Marie and I took some time to examine this week's numbers, and predict what's coming in the next few weeks. How much foodservice volume is making its way to retail?