Grocery sales grow 10% salt in small retail

The salt in the small grocery basket retail (stores with up to nine checkouts) was the least impacted by the effects of the crisis earlier this year. According to the Nielsen study, the growth of 9.9% in value, followed by sweet grocery (+8.7%), hygiene and beauty (+7.1%) and cleaning the home (+5.4%). The average growth of baskets in the period was 5.1%. The analysis was made in the spring of 2016 and had compared to the same period in 2015. About 400,000 of points of sale were evaluated. The disclosure of the study occurred yesterday (28/11), during the event Abad (Brazilian Association of Wholesalers distributors).
The baskets that were below average were: alcoholic beverages (+3.9%), non-alcoholic beverages (+2.2%), perishables (+3.2%) and other (+1.3%). On the other hand, in volume, all the baskets showed losses. On average, they had -4.7% drop. The grocery basket was again the least salt impacted, with retraction of -2.5%. Good examples of this growth are the categories basket tomato sauce, which grew + 7.2% in +2% in volume and value, and oil and olive oil, with a high of + 19.4% in value and + 2.4% in volume.
Other categories that showed little growth in retail value and volume were: repellents, insecticides, coffee, powdered milk, mineral water, margarine, sour cream, sugar cane brandy, synthetic sponge, cat food, pudding/gelatin, bathroom cleaner and wheat flour.