By Phil Gibson
We’ll give you the good news first: Based on an analysis of full-service seafood counter data from US supermarkets for 52 weeks ending 10/5/2014, sales rose 6.4% to $4.4 billion from the prior year.
Now, for the bad news: Over that period, the tonnage of seafood sold through these stores declined by 2.8% to 612 million pounds, and the average retail price increased by 9.4%.
These are some of the findings of retail veteran and market analyst Phil Gibson, who spent the bulk of his career running the seafood division for leading US supermarket chain Safeway.
