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Article: Sour Cream Sales Inch Up While Butter Slips.(Brief Article)
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- Dairy Foods
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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While dollar sales of both sour cream and butter are up significantly, volume sales increased slightly for sour cream, while retreating a bit for butter, according to the most recent reports from Information Resources Inc.
Rising prices meant an increase of 4.4% in dollar sales for the top ten vendors of sour cream during the 52-week period ended July 15. But look at the volume numbers. That's not such a pretty picture. For the group, volume sales grew just a bit more than half a percentage point. For some brands there was a double-digit tumble in sales volume.
For pancake lovers the price of a pound of butter may be too much to pay. Volume sales were ...