The retail ready-to-drink (RTD) tea and coffee category found itself in a good news/bad news situation over the past year. Overall, the category recorded decent dollar sales growth, up 2.7% to $6,987.3 million during the 52 weeks ending Aug. 9, 2020, according to data from Chicago-based market research firm IRI. However, unit sales took a 2.8% dive to 2,962.0 million.