Long reads – Page 154
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Analysis & FeaturesBagged snacks: Pringles miss out on £66m snacks surge
It’s good to share. The bagged snacks category has added an extra £66.6m
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Analysis & FeaturesAlcohol: Wine: plummeting pound hurts cheap plonk
Wine brands sour as own label surges
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Analysis & FeaturesOver the counter: branded OTC over a barrel as sales slip
There are chill winds blowing through OTC remedies right now
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Analysis & FeaturesSauces: Cooking: scratch cooks can standard jarred sauces
Pass the passata. Brits are ditching jars and returning to scratch cooking
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Analysis & FeaturesCanned goods: canned price spikes drive own label up
Once lost in deflation, canned food has had some much needed value pumped back into it
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Analysis & FeaturesHot beverages: higher prices put tea back in the black
Tea has returned to value growth for the first time in this report since 2011
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Analysis & FeaturesFree-from: sales of free-from close in on £1bn mark
Six years since Gwyneth Paltrow declared she was going gluten-free and dairy-free, the free-from trend has snowballed
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Analysis & FeaturesFruit & veg: fresh fruit in the limelight as sales surge
Brits are going bananas for fresh fruit. Sales are up by £176.4m (3.8%), the greatest gain in this report
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Analysis & FeaturesMeat, fish & poultry: meat gets the chop as sales fall by £71m
Fresh meat has suffered grocery’s biggest loss for the second consecutive year
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Analysis & FeaturesRice, noodles & pasta: rice & noodle players defy low-carb fad
Ask any health blogger, and they’ll tell you carbs should be shunned
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Analysis & FeaturesConfectionery: chocolate in a jam as war on sugar hits
Shrinkflation has a lot to answer for. First thing it does: lowers volumes (they’re down 3.5%)
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Analysis & FeaturesSex care: super sexual revolution as sales rise £5m
There’s a sexual revolution going on in the supers. Combined sales of condoms, lubes and sex devices are up £5m (6.7% )
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Analysis & FeaturesE-cigarettes: sales up in smoke with an £8m tumble
Just a couple of years ago e-cigarettes looked like it could be the Holy Grail for grocers, particularly indies
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Analysis & FeaturesBiscuits: Brexit takes the biscuit as packs shrink
As the pound’s value continues to fall following the Brexit vote, packets of biscuits are shrinking
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Analysis & FeaturesPaper products: nappy sales bottom out as loo roll rises
Paper products are defying inflation as the supers slash prices and put greater emphasis on own label
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Analysis & FeaturesPersonal care: Haircare goes au naturel to recover value
Health has had a powerful influence not only on Brits’ choice of food but also on their selection of haircare products…
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Analysis & FeaturesSugar confectionery: rising prices take edge off candy's crush
Haribo became the first sweet giant to go in for a little shrinkflation
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Analysis & FeaturesJuices & smoothies: Innocent hits the top spot
Britain’s health kick has been both a curse and a blessing for juices & smoothies
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Analysis & FeaturesSoup: Heinz grows share as soup sales go cold
Soup is going cold. Volumes are sinking in both fresh and ambient
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Analysis & FeaturesBaby & infant: babycare hit by big Brexit price spikes
It’s going to take more than the 0.2% dip in the birth rate [OFT] to explain this one away