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Steve Dwyer

CSP Reporter...

Articles by
Steve Dwyer

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Foodservice

Fickle Feeding

Hartman Group offers tips for capitalizing on dynamic eating trends

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The Gum Bummer

A pillar of the overall confection category, gum has been heading south from a dollar and unit perspective for some time. And while manufacturers are attempting to change direction with new products, all that innovation is part of the problem.

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A Question of Protein

To many consumers, getting that daily protein fix is like a riddle wrapped in an enigma—many are clueless about how much protein they actually need. Convenience store retailers and their food-company partners think they have some solutions: Forget the riddle wrapped in an enigma; how about meat snacks or jerky wrapped in a 3.25-ounce package of 12 grams of lean protein?

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Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner

There’s a common trajectory for c-store retailers entering the foodservice fray: Coffee sales beget breakfast sales, breakfast begets lunch, and lunch begets dinner. But some convenience retailers have cracked the code, and the solution involves chicken. And darn good biscuits.

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A Better-for-You Bet

With proper care and adjustments, ‘healthy’ sections can succeed

Snacks & Candy

Snacks: The Protein Mystery

While most consumers don’t know how much protein they need in a given day, they continue to demand types of protein other than traditional center-of-plate lunch and dinner options. Much of this is fueled by the trend toward on-the-run consumption and mini-meals throughout the day.

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Beverage Pricing: How Low Can You Go?

Aggressive price positions on mainstream teas, juices, energy drinks and flavored waters have often been de rigueur. But as competition percolates across single-serve subcategories, it’s not uncommon to see aggressive pricing for premium and superpremium brands, too. This troubles some retailers.

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Candy: Extending the Extensions

Bite-size? Shareable? What about products that morph into something new? These are all factors that play a role in the world of confection today.

Convertible Confections

While there is a lot of buzz about bite-size and shareable packages that pace chocolate and nonchocolate growth, compelling developments also include products that morph into completely new forms.

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RYO/MYO: Welcome to the Machine

A retro mystique combined with do-it-yourself independence has created an interest in the sleepy tobacco segment of roll-your-own cigarettes. How retailers can capitalize on the trend.

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Minis Are King

In the retail world, middle-tier product varieties can often get pinched at the flanks--the victim of sales declines coming at the expense of smaller and larger brand counterparts. Welcome to the world of the standard-size 1.55-ounce candy variety, a longtime driver of chocolate impulse sales.

Confection Direction

Reilly Musser knows her customers love the new “hand-to-mouth” confection products—resealable, shareable pouches of unwrapped, bite-sized sweets. Musser, category manager for Santa Clara, Calif.-based Robinson Oil, which has 18 Rotten Robbie c-stores and a few kiosk-type locations, sees the upside of the trend toward bite-sized.

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