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Food prices steering more shoppers to discount grocers (2/4ページ)
独系ディスカウント店アルジ（テネシー州ナッシュビル）でスパゲティ･ソースを探す客のロン・グリーンさん。低価格商品やＰＢ商品を買い求める客が増えてきたためディスカウント店は店舗を増やす計画だ（ＵＳＡ ＴＯＤＡＹ）DISCOUNT-GROCERS -- Ron Green shops for spaghetti sauce at an Aldi store in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, April 24, 2008. Some discount grocers such as Aldi are expanding their store operations as more consumers come to their stores looking for discounts and private-label brands to save money. (Gannett News Service, Shelley Mays/The Tennessean)At the same time, traditional supermarkets declined in market share last year, because of increased competition from stores such as Wal-Mart and limited assortment stores. Traditional supermarkets are expected to drop in market share to 37.3 percent over the next five years, from 44.1 percent in 2006.
U.S. prices on all food soared 4 percent last year, the highest increase since 1990, according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
The culprits are higher commodity and energy costs. A larger demand for corn for ethanol production caused corn to rise to $3.34 per bushel last fall, up 83 percent from the fall of 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And the average price of milk was 13.3 percent higher than in March 2007, according to the March consumer price index.
More people are frequenting Aldi's stores for the first time, in part because of the economy, said David Hassen, a director of real estate for the mid-South region.
Capitalizing on the rising growing demand for food bargains, Aldi recently announced it would reduce prices of some of its groceries up to 27 percent, Hassen said.
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