Dairy at retail continues to be positive for 2020 year-to-date. The large surge experienced during the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic pushed all dairy retail volume up, turning products such as milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream to positive growth in 2020, reversing a previous loss trend occurring earlier in the year. The dairy aisle continues to experience higher growth than total store sales. Total store dollar sales are up +5.3% compared to a year ago and dairy aisle dollar sales are up +14.6% compared to a year ago.
After experiencing significant increases, in the most recent week butter had a notable decline in volume sales dropping +59.6% to +0.9%. Even with this slowdown, butter year-to-date volume sales are up +26.1%.
Fluid milk sales are up +7.4% (volume sales) and +12.9% (dollar sales). In the previous week, sales were up +15.6% (volume) and +20.6% (dollar).
Butter sales are up +0.9% (volume) and 1+5.0% (dollar). In the previous week, butter sales were up +59.6% (volume) and +64.0% (dollar).
Ice cream sales are up +12.3% (volume) and +26.0% (dollar). In the previous week, they were up +27.5% (volume) and +33.2% (dollar).
As a reference point, fresh bread sales are up +12.8% (volume) and +16.2% (dollar) vs. the previous period growth of at +20.3% (volume) and +24.4% (dollar).
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