1. US Convenience Changing face of small-box grocery retailing
TREND REPORT
US Convenience
Changing face of small-box grocery retailing
Sandy Skrovan
May 2014
Research Director - US

2. Contents Shifting shopping behavior Evolving ‘convenience’ landscape
Value retailers proliferate
Neighborhood grocers emerge
Mass gets small
Learning from campus stores
Drugstore as c-store
Can traditional c-stores adapt?
Key takeaways

3. 1. Shifting shopping behavior

4. 1. Shifting shopping behavior
Eating and meal preparation habits reflect an increasing emphasis on convenience and on-the-go consumption. 53
minutes spent per day on meal preparation and clean-up, 2012.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics
of snacks are eaten at home.
Source: Hartman Group
80%
1in4
people eat some type of fast food every day.
Source: DoSomething.org
83%
US is a nation of snackers: 83% of consumers snack at least once a day.
Source: NPD
1in5
consumers (66 million Americans) say their daily eating approach is ‘eating on the run’.
Source: IRI
20%
of all meals are eaten in the car.
Source: DoSomething.org

5. small-format fresh food markets
1. Shifting shopping behavior
Small-box stores are winning more fill-in grocery and quick-trip shopping occasions.
Small-format food stores – i.e. hard discounters (e.g. Aldi), small-box convenience-oriented fresh stores (e.g. Sprouts, The Fresh Market) and dollar stores – are popular destinations for fill-in food shopping – according to Food Marketing Institute (FMI) data.
USA: % of Format’s Shopping Trips that Are for Fill-in Food Shopping, 2013 (%)
hard discounters
30%
small-format fresh food markets
27%
© FMI
dollar stores
18%
Source: Food Marketing Institute