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dried up. Office coffee is gone; many
micro markets are gone. Locations shut
down. What do we have to do? When
will people start coming back to the
office, and how do you operate a micro
market that used to serve 700 people
now only needs service for 20? "
Still, thanks to micro markets, K&R
ended 2020 better than expected. While
the company's vending and OCS sales
were down 20% and 50%, respectively,
its micro market business began to
take off again in the second half of the
year. Whereas K&R's education and
healthcare business suffered throughout
2020 and into the first half of 2021,
new micro market business at logistics
accounts, especially Amazon fulfillment
centers, enjoyed robust growth.
As online shopping surged in 2020,
Amazon and other online retailers
added millions of square feet to their
fulfillment center space. Amazon
said it increased its network capacity
by about 50% last year. K&R Market
Fresh was among the operators across
the country that benefited from this
trend that is likely to stick around.
SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES
And as office locations are coming
back online, business for operators
is not exactly booming, as product
shortages in the United States pile
up. " Although our current COVID
challenges are - knock on wood - not
quite as bad, disruptions in the supply
chain are proving to be almost as
tough, " Whitson noted. " People are
starting to come back to our workplace
locations, and they want to buy
stuff, but I have no product to sell. "
Not unlike most foodservice
providers today, K&R Market Fresh is
K&R route manager James Mikesell
checks in with office and warehouse
manager Danielle Gravley.
navigating the pitfalls of a food desert,
a far contrast from March 2020, when
operators had too much inventory and
had to discard tens of millions of dollars'
worth of products because their
locations shut down. Whitson advises
other operators to do the best they can
to fill their shelves. ■
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