High food costs are impacting meat snack sales and pushing c-store retailers to figure out new ways to lift the category in 2024. Dried meat snacks totaled $2.15 billion in dollar sales, showing a 0.4% decrease, while its unit sales dropped 7%. Jerky dollar sales also dipped 1.8%, with unit sales falling 4.4%, for the…
Snack Sales Climb
Despite higher prices, customers are still snacking, and they’re seeking flavor innovation, protein, energy and taste from their snack options. The convenience store salty snack category saw dollar sales of $8.08 billion, a gain of 14%, for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 2023, according to Circana. Units sold topped 2.87 billion, a rise of…
Sweet Chili-Flavored Protein Chips
Pure Protein continues to spice up the snack aisle with the launch of its new Sweet Chili-flavored Popped Crisps. Sweet Chili is a familiar, in-demand flavor profile that delivers a hint of heat and that unmistakable sweet and sour tang — and staves off hunger with 12 satisfying grams of high-grade protein per bag. Sweet […]
Bite-Sized Chocolate Chip Cookies
Tate’s Bake Shop has introduced its new Tiny Tate’s Chocolate Chip Cookies. The fan-favorite Tate’s Bake Shop classic Chocolate Chip Cookies are now bite-size and available in a more snackable, resealable bag format. Tiny Tate’s first launched in 2015 with individual-size one-ounce bags, and after seeing how much customers loved the miniature format, Tate’s made […]
Sweet and Spicy Potato Chips
Lay’s has debuted its latest flavor innovation: Sweet & Spicy Honey flavored chips. These chips offer the perfect combination of sweet and spicy flavors consumers love. Sweet and spicy snackers alike can get their hands on Lay’s Sweet & Spicy Honey flavored chips at retailers nationwide now. Lay’s Sweet and Spicy Honey flavored chips can […]
Sweet and Spicy Snack Sampling
CStore Decisions Senior Editor Emmy Boes samples a few different snacks this month, including her namesake: Emmy’s Organics Thin & Crispy Brownie Snaps in three flavors. She also tasted Nopalia Chili Pepper Crunchy Sticks and Dave’s Killer Bread Cocoa Brownie Blitz.
Doughnut-Flavored Popcorn
Smartfood has released its new Chocolate Glazed Donut popcorn. Air-popped and with a chocolate-flavored kettle coating, the new release combines everything there is to love about a chocolate-glazed donut in the ultimate sweet, salty and crunchy bite. Smartfood Chocolate Glazed Donut is now available at retailers nationwide in 6.5-ounce bags for $5.19 and two-ounce bags […]
Mexican Cuisine-Inspired Corn Chip Twists
General Mills has added a new flavor to its Old El Paso Fiesta Twists line-up. Salsa Verde joins three other flavors (Queso, Zesty Ranch and Cinnamon Churro) to give convenience store shoppers another twist on the crispy and crunchy corn chip snack with full flavors inspired by Tex-Mex cuisine. Like the other varieties, the new […]
Frosted Protein Cookies
Quest just launched its new Strawberry Cake Frosted Cookies. These soft, bakery-style cookies have a strawberry-flavored center topped with a sweet, glazed frosting — the perfect hack to increase consumers’ daily protein intake while satisfying their sweet cravings. The cookies also have less than one gram of sugar and are made with 10 grams of […]
Nugget-Shaped Pretzels
OMG! Pretzels bring the customer the only gourmet seasoned sourdough pretzel nuggets on the market today. They offer nine flavors: Sweet & Spicy, Salty Butterscotch, Cheddar Jalapeno, Buffalo, and five other flavors with a light crunch. They come in a 6.5-ounce resealable pouch, which makes them convenient for on-the-go snacking and at home. They are […]