The retail foodservice price + value + service equilibrium may have just reset!

The price, value, service equilibrium is resetting in Grocery stores, Restaurants and Convenience stores. The wildly successful Subway $5.00 foot-long stated it. The QSR value focused $1.00 menu propelled it and now the $10.00 Pizza may have signaled the bottom.

Enter the grocerant niche with ready-to-eat and ready-to-heat fresh prepared food. Consumers looking for new products, packaging and time saving options. They are attracted by the fresh prepared focus, and price points. Which provide a strong margin for increased profitability for the retailer.

All sectors have noticed a discontinuity in consumer food shopping behavior and all are fighting for share of stomach. Contributing to this displacement is a focus by on short term market metrics particularly price and away from the consumer. Which in turn has caused a loss is consumer traffic in some as important as price might be other attributes are much more important. The consumer is turning to the grocerant sectors ready-to-eat / ready-to-heat prepared food options in any sector that offers it.

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