Total U.S. outlets combined for the 52 weeks ending October 1, 2016. Outlets include: grocery, drug, mass merchandisers, convenience, select dollar stores, select warehouse clubs, and military commissaries.
Each category has dollar sales over 500 million U.S. dollars.
Data reflects UPC-coded items except where denoted by an asterisk.
* Includes UPC+random-weight-retailer-assigned price-look-up code (PLU) and system 2 sales volume; volume equivalencies will vary respective of each category.
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U.S. leading categories in grocery 2016, based on volume sales growth
This graph depicts the fastest growing categories in grocery in the United States in 2016, based on unit volume sales growth. In that year, the unit volume of cherries grew by some *** percent.
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