Of the $356 billion (€262.8 billion) in total U.S. food store sales in 2009 – these numbers don’t include sales from big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart and Costco – sales of random-weight fresh and frozen seafood totaled $3.76 billion (€2.78 billion), or 1 percent of the overall food store spend, said Tom DeMott, chief operating officer of Encore Associates, a California-based consulting firm.
When fixed-weight items such as two-pound bags of shrimp are added – these sales are calculated under the frozen segment – the total rises to nearly $5 billion (€3.7
