Do any of you know which food item is the most purchased one from grocery stores?
Come on! Take a guess.
I know because grocery stores have been our business, and besides, I read this in the union reports.
Also, while we are on the subject of food, which food do you like more than any other?
That seems like a simple question to answer, but,…many people seem to be stumped when hit with that question.
Dee
Hiya, deeward, and welcome!
Posing clever questions to which one already knows the answer is not a primary function of General Questions, so why don’t I move this to MPSIMS for you before the Great Big Scary GQ Mods like JillGat and manhattan and DrMatrix come by and hit you on the head with the GQ Two-by-Four?
By the way, MY guess is Frozen Swedish Meatballs. And my favorite food is lima beans.
Gotta be either milk or bread?
I vote bread. Milk’d be a close second, but then there’re lactose intolerent, and vegans, and people who just don’t drink much milk. But everybody loves bread.
I also guess bread. I was going to say milk, but I know alot of people who either don’t drink it or don’t drink much of it.
My favorite, though, is rice. Mmmmmm.
in Australia, and of course this could vary around the world, the answer is biscuits. Sweet or savoury. - So, what is your answer, deeward?
This Aussie would also vote bread.
Beer is a close second though.
I think bread and milk are probably the most popular items in a convenience store, not the grocery store.
You can’t buy beer in grocery stores here.
I’m going to say breakfast cereal.
Canned corn.
tube steaks
My guess is it’s not even an edible item - probably something like toilet paper. There are an awful lot of people these days who eat out solely, and even more who eat most of their meals out.
Wait, wait… We were playing an American version of Trivial Pursuit at my friend’s house before Christmas and this question came up. If I recall correctly, the answer was Marlboro cigarettes.
Am I right?
lorinada and auRa - he(she?) specified a food item, so TP and cigarettes are out.
You can usually tell what the best sellers are by where they are in the store and how much space they take up. Stores like to put their best sellers in the back and on the sides because that forces shoppers to walk farther for them.
If we were talking about a class of food, I would have to say meat, because people are less likely to buy meat at a convenience store, and the meat section is usually the largest in the store.
Candy is another potential, since that is an impulse item by the cashiers.
But neither of those are food items.
I’m going to go with eggs, that’s a fairly large department for one food item.
BTW, eggs are one of my favorite foods. 
I’m sticking with cereal. It’s a whole aisle devoted to the stuff! Both sides!
The meat department is as big as the cereal aisle, but people buy more cereal than meat. Look at the carts in the checkout lane.
The egg section is way smaller than either the cereal or meat sections.
Says I:
That’s right! Eggs! Revised List:
You don’t consider meat and candy food? Dare I ask what you do with your meat and candy purchases if you don’t eat them? :eek:
My guess: Milk
I should have put “item” in quotes.
It really depends on the granularity of the survey.
If I can say “meat” then that is what I pick. Heck, I could pick “canned foods”
However, if they differentiate between steak, chicken and shrimp, then that starts dropping meat down the list. And since this has the earmarks of a riddle, i.e. the obvious answer is not the answer, I expect that they are doing this. Also, since this is an industry survey, I expect the granularity to be a bit more specific. You can always roll numbers up, but you can’t split them out if they aren’t split in the first place.
Thus, eggs - which really can’t be split out too much more. Bananas is a good pick too. Toilet paper if non-food items can be picked. Or gum.
That makes good sense, Zyada. I didn’t think of it that way.
If we are going to be very specific (granular?) about it, I’d guess that the #1 selling food item is Heinz ketchup.
Yo, deeward, are we getting an answer any time soon?