Memorial Day: Rainy Weather, Hot Features

Despite generally poor weather, many distributors reporting into BBD that Memorial Day was a success due to hot features off-premise. But while many mainstream grocers still run hot beer deals, Food Lion comes to mind in particular, many grocery chains are going upscale to combat Wal-Mart Supercenters. Typical of the emails we got is this one from a Southern A-B distributor: "Harry, YTD we are up +9.18% in convenience gas (no scan, for the most part), +10.01% Supercenter (no scan),