The coronavirus outbreak in the United States has encouraged consumers to not only stock up on essential but snack foods as well, with cookie variety packs purchases increasing by around **** percent compared to the same week a year ago. Purchases of salty snacks such as pretzels and cheese snacks also increased by approximately **** percent and **** percent respectively.
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Winsight Grocery Business. (March 16, 2020). Sales growth of comfort food and snacks due to coronavirus pandemic in the United States between 2019 and 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 18, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105324/coronavirus-sales-growth-of-comfort-food-united-states/
Winsight Grocery Business. "Sales growth of comfort food and snacks due to coronavirus pandemic in the United States between 2019 and 2020." Chart. March 16, 2020. Statista. Accessed December 18, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105324/coronavirus-sales-growth-of-comfort-food-united-states/
Winsight Grocery Business. (2020). Sales growth of comfort food and snacks due to coronavirus pandemic in the United States between 2019 and 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 18, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105324/coronavirus-sales-growth-of-comfort-food-united-states/
Winsight Grocery Business. "Sales Growth of Comfort Food and Snacks Due to Coronavirus Pandemic in The United States between 2019 and 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 16 Mar 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105324/coronavirus-sales-growth-of-comfort-food-united-states/
Winsight Grocery Business, Sales growth of comfort food and snacks due to coronavirus pandemic in the United States between 2019 and 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105324/coronavirus-sales-growth-of-comfort-food-united-states/ (last visited December 18, 2025)
Sales growth of comfort food and snacks due to coronavirus pandemic in the United States between 2019 and 2020 [Graph], Winsight Grocery Business, March 16, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105324/coronavirus-sales-growth-of-comfort-food-united-states/
