Hot In Recession: Chocolate, Running Shoes, Spam
It’s not all doom and gloom in the U.S. economy. Some products are bucking the recession and flying off store shelves.
Sales of chocolate and running shoes are up. Wine drinkers haven’t stopped sipping; they just seem to be choosing cheaper vintages.
Gold coins are selling like hot cakes. So are gardening seeds. Tanning products are piling up in shopping carts; maybe more people are finding color in a bottle than from sun-worshipping on a faraway beach.
Strong sales of Spam, Dinty Moore stew and chili helped Hormel Foods Corp. post a 6 percent increase in first quarter sales in its grocery products unit.
Consumers have trimmed household budgets and postponed buying cars, major appliances and other big-ticket items. Yet they still are willing to shell out for small indulgences and goods that make life more comfortable at home, where they are spending more time.
Recession shoppers also are drawn to items that make them feel safe, both personally and financially.
Photo by Associated Press.
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Jaclyn on June 11th, 2009 2:15 pm
Chocolate of course is one thing that most people buy and eat a lot of when they are feeling down in the dumps so i can see why those sales would rise. As for the rest…people are switching what they buy in order to save on time and money right now. the stew is a big one, i love stew and have actually always bought dinty moores stew rather than the fixings to make my own from scratch, it’s cheaper and quicker to buy it already made and just reheat it!
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