Supermarket prepared food sales have grown more than 6% annually over the past five years, a new research report by Technomic shows.
February 28/Chicago/Press Release -- Supermarket prepared food sales have grown more than 6% annually over the past five years, a new research report by Technomic shows.
The steady growth of prepared foods at retail, researchers at the market research firm concluded, may be spurred by retailers -- as prepared food margins in general strengthened -- looking at their prepared food programs as profit centers rather than just traffic drivers as they had in the past.