In the recently released 2022 edition of Eating Patterns in America from The NPD Group, food industry advisor David Portalatin discusses six macro themes currently shaping the new realities of food consumption behaviors.
Fresh bakery sales are thriving in today’s “new normal,” ranking in the top three departments storewide as shoppers seek to elevate more frequent at-home meals and enjoy affordable indulgences in the face of economic uncertainty.
Daymon’s 2022 Consumer Holiday Study, a survey conducted in October, found that 42% of Gen Z and Millennial consumers are hosting their own holidays this year, and their holiday shopping behavior is different than the older generations.
Consumers rank food and beverage as one of the most important industries when it comes to environmental impact, but many are unable to articulate what makes a product in the category sustainable.
In 2022, American consumers are expected to spend an all-time high of 10.6 billion dollars for the Halloween season, according to Statista. This would be an increase of about half a billion dollars from last year.
One of the main differences between the produce departments of yesterday and today, said Anne-Marie Roerink, principal of San Antonio-based 210 Analytics, is the enormous surge in packaged and value-added products.
In its most recent Feedback Group national grocery shopper survey, conducted in May 2022 with more than 1,200 instore shoppers, Lake Success, N.Y.-based Retail Feedback Group found that produce is the second highest rated department, in terms of satisfaction, across all channels, with a rating of 4.29 on a five-point scale and with 51% of those surveyed rating it a five.
The plant-based food industry has exploded in the past decade, but COVID caused or, at the least, revealed some challenges to the category’s future growth. To help shed some light on where it’s headed, Arlington, Va.-based FMI – The Food Industry Association has extended its highly successful “Power of” series of studies to include plant-based.
In an online survey conducted by OnePoll for Veggies Made Great, 1,000 millennial parents of school-aged children answered questions about their typical vegetable consumption habits.