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Suplicy: Bananas are the top-selling item in grocery stores

Caue Suplicy · What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 2 · Oct 25, 2024 · at 7:02

Barnana founder Caue Suplicy discusses the market research that motivated him to create a dehydrated banana snack brand.

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“I learned that bananas were the number one selling item in grocery stores.”

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Bananas are the number one selling item in grocery stores.

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Assessment

Industry scan data from NielsenIQ and Circana (formerly IRI), along with retail reports from major grocers, corroborate that bananas are the number one selling item by volume and unit sales across U.S. grocery stores. Nielsen data indicates bananas lead grocery produce departments with an average of over 4,640 units sold per store weekly and reach 86% to 90% household penetration. Additionally, major retailers such as Walmart (the largest U.S. grocer) and online platforms like Instacart consistently report bananas as their single best-selling grocery item by volume.

Nielsen/FreshFacts data confirms bananas average 4,641–4,647 units per store per week, leading all supermarket produce volume.
Circana/IRI syndicated data identifies bananas as the top volume item in U.S. grocery produce departments with over $3.15 billion in annual retail sales.
Walmart disclosures confirm bananas are its consistently recognized number one selling grocery item, moving 1.5 to 1.7 billion pounds annually.
Instacart reported bananas as its number one best-selling grocery item for over a decade.

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[1] producebusiness.com [2] walmart.com [3] walmart.com [4] supermarketnews.com [5] producebusiness.com [6] organicproducenetwork.com [7] walmart.com [8] tastingtable.com

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