Supermarket Perimeter - August 2021 - 3

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AUGUST 2021 - 3
ANDY NELSON
anelson@sosland.com
Snack
time
For those of you who share living space with someone from a
younger demographic group, I would like to pose a question: at
what point did you give up on the idea that you would be sitting
around the table with them two or three times a day for something that we'll call, for the
sake of convenience, a " meal " ?
I cannot answer the question myself. It's lost in the deep mists of time. If I can sit down
with one of our teenagers for one meal a day, I count myself lucky.
It's not just that they don't cherish our company as much as we would like. They, like
seemingly everyone else their age or a bit older or a bit younger, have no intentions of ever
eating three meals a day again, or maybe even two.
Food-wise, we live in an Age of Snacking.
" The concept of what constitutes a meal and what constitutes a snack is becoming more
blurred, " said Will Cowling, marketing manager for St. Albans, UK-based market intelligence
specialist FMCG Gurus.
The good news is that people are not only snacking more, they're also looking for
healthier, fresher snacks and ones with shorter ingredient labels. That sets up perfectly
for perimeter fresh departments, providing them with a great excuse to refresh their
departments with new and better-for-you snacking options in mind.
And while younger Americans get blamed by their Gen X and boomer parents for their
snacking habits, consumers of all ages are increasingly snacking instead of eating traditional
meals throughout the day.
Older consumers, for instance, choose smaller meals that blur the boundary with snacks
because they associate such eating habits with ease of digestion, important at a time when
more attention is paid to digestive health. Satiety and higher energy are other benefits that
have been tied to smaller, more frequent meals and/or snacks.
Food for thought next time you're sitting at a mostly empty table, tucking into a lovingly
prepared - and woefully underappreciated - multi-course meal.

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