More cheese, please… In several cases, consumers are buying more.
When it comes to natural cheese, sales continue to chug along. Overall, natural cheese totaled just shy of $17.5 billion for the 52 weeks ending Oct. 8, a 5% year-over-year (YoY) gain, according to Circana, a Chicago-based market research firm. In unit sales, which are much tougher for dairy categories to show gains due to inflation, natural cheese bucked the trend, gaining 1% YoY to 4.38 billion.