HERSHEY, Pa. — The snacks and candy category has grown 3.5% in convenience stores over the past year, outpacing the 2.4% retailwide average for this segment, according to The Hershey Co.’s new report, Convenience Store Update: Sweets and Snacks Take the Lead.
This report was initially presented at the 2019 Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago. Alan Tobin, director of category management for the convenience channel for Hershey, led this report, which examines the opportunities and challenges that exist for convenience-store retailers as they look to bolster their snacking segments.
Here are three c-store snacking insights from Hershey’s report …