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.
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 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.
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.
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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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.
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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