There will be 2, 000-5, 000-square-foot convenience-food stores of the sort now being opened in Hyderabad, and also bigger, 25, 000-50, 000-square-foot hypermarkets, starting with one in Ahmedabad at the end of the year.
The rest of its sales were divided between breakfast cereal across Europe and frozen snacks in Belgium and the Netherlands, along with a smattering of convenience-food joint ventures in Central Europe.
As the food writer Jane Black has observed, studies show that Americans do not lack information and opportunity to eat more sensibly - they just prefer the taste and convenience of junk food.
Packaged snacks became the new banner-food for convenience (no bowl needed, hold the milk), and business is booming, especially internationally.
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Fast-food and convenience-store franchises, an obvious first step on the ladder, are often awarded to blacks, but franchises still account for a tiny share of retail sales.
"We see the emerging opportunity to 'snackify' beverages and 'drinkify' snacks as the next frontier in food and beverage convenience, " Ms. Nooyi said.
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In what has turned into a grim, nationwide potluck, food and drink in convenience stores, vending machines and communal kitchens are being spiked with everything from cyanide and arsenic to a lethal chemical used to inflate automobile air bags.
Part of the declines can be explained in the relative performance of convenience stores to the AOC channel (food, drug stores, mass merchandisers, and Walmart).
In Mississippi, from the farm to the grocery, the convenience store to the restaurant, all food is already regulated to ensure safety by divisions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the state Department of Health and the state Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
Between-meal snacking, fast food consumption, and sales of convenience foods are all up, particularly among kids in big cities.
While the restaurant industry has signed on to the idea and helped to write the new regulations, supermarkets, convenience stores and other retailers that sell prepared food say they want to no part of it.
The company got an enormous boost 30 years ago when it spotted a gap in the food market, and started selling fancy convenience foods.
Larsen also points to Weight Watchers for convenience, as the company has increasingly begun working with food manufacturers like Smart Ones to include their Points system information on packaging.
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and John Koskinen, chair of the President Council on Y2K Conversion, flanked by representatives from the food industry, said that grocery stores, convenience stores and major chain restaurants have completed their Y2K preparations and anticipate no problems for consumers.
Some of the best-performing food markets in the past few years have been convenience stores, and supermarkets are starting to notice.
Because the effort targets bodegas, restaurants, food carts, and movie theaters, but not convenience and grocery stores, critics say it is arbitrary.
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According to the Indictment, between 1987 and 2010, Gomez worked for the Convent in various administrative capacities, including as the director of food services and the manager of an on-site convenience store.
For 10 years folks had to buy their groceries at places like convenience stores and gas stations, where usually they don't have a whole lot of fresh food, if any, to choose from.
He also bought a controlling stake in an established Thai food and bottling company, Berli Jucker, which he is now using to expand into the convenience store market.
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Around half of the supermarket's sales growth came from the online arm and smaller convenience stores, he said, with general merchandise and clothing growing at more than twice the rate of food over the year.
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Two months ago, he spent an undisclosed but "very substantial" sum to bulldoze the 1, 000 square foot convenience store next to one of his stations and build a 4, 200 square foot grab-and-go food store with a coffee bar and three extra staffers.
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