Less Than Desirable Labor Day for Beer

Dear Client:  Labor Day scans are in, and there's no bang for beer to summer’s end.  Category dollars declined 0.9% and fell short of a billion in sales for the week ending September 1 ($999.4 million). How’d that stack up to other summer holidays this year?  Well, beer sales over Memorial Day week this year (the week ending May 26) cleared $1 billion, as did sales over Fourth of July (week ending July 7); and a couple of other weeks