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AG Secretary Sonny Perdue Discusses Challenges Shifting Food Supply Chains
[The Conservative Treehouse] Most Americans were not aware food consumption in the U.S. was a 55/45 proposition. Approximately 55% of all food was consumed "outside the home" (or food away from home), and 45% of all food consumed was food "inside the home" (grocery shoppers).Food 'outside the home' included: restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 55 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis. The 'food away from home' sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort the 'food away from home' sector has been reduced by 75% of daily food delivery operations. However, people still need to eat. That means retail food outlets, grocers, are seeing sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area. Much more on the supply chain dislocation at the link. Posted by: KBK 2020-04-17 |
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