NEW YORK -- The Labor Day holiday weekend was good for beverage sales in convenience stores if slightly behind growth last year, according to a Beverage Buzz retailer survey conducted by Wells Fargo Securities, New York.
Despite wetter and cooler weather than last year and Hurricane Hermine's blow to Florida, beverage sales in c-stores grew 4.5% during the holiday weekend vs. 6.2% in 2015, "solid" growth, according to analyst Bonnie Herzog's summary of the survey, "with pockets of strength in premium waters, healthy/functional nonalcohol beverages and import beers."
Here's a sales breakdown ...