Meat sales exploded in 2020, and since then, dollar growth continues while units/volumes remain ahead of 2019 pre-pandemic levels, according to Anne-Marie Roerink, principal of 210 Analytics, LLC and author of the annual Power of Meat report.
“If you think about all that has happened in terms of inflation, how food service has come back to a large extent, to see that our units and volume sales are still sitting at 2019 levels or above, according to the IRi data, is quite impressive, if you think about the fact that we’re looking at 22 to 25% inflation versus those time periods,” said…