Retail Tracker

Retail Tracker Report

Period ending 10/06/2024

Produced every four weeks, the Retail Tracker Report provides insight into category dollar sales, segment and variety sales, average price per pound, and other helpful metrics.

A few of the key findings of the report for the weeks ending October 6, 2024 are:

• The marketplace was heavily disrupted late September, early October as consumers stocked up on food and basics in advance of the eastern seaboard port strikes and hurricanes Helene and Milton in the Southeast.
• Mushroom dollar sales reached $111 million in the quad-week period, mostly unchanged from the same four weeks last year.
• Specialty mushrooms had a very strong quad-week performance, up 23.4% in dollars.
• The quad-week’s volume sales increased over the prior quad weeks, as predicted. Volume typically gains between now and mid-January.
• Mushroom prices increased slightly, at +1.3% on a price-per-pound basis.