Milk and juice have underperformed in recent years.
“Milk is a challenging category because you have a lot of competition with the dairy alternatives like almond milk and oat milk and others,” Hemphill said. “On the juice side, the difficulty has been the high sugar and caloric content of the products…. Also, juice was an expensive product that’s gotten only more expensive.”
Nolan said grocery stores are taking over the milk industry because of the cost of goods. “But (c-stores) still have to stay in stock and be ready for it,” he said.