PRODUCERS AND RETAILERS: DEMAND FOR CANNED FOOD WILL STAY EVEN AFTER COVID-19
March 2nd, 2020
The can making and filling sectors have become beneficiaries – at least in the short term – of consumers turning their kitchen cupboards into pandemic pantries, stockpiling canned food and other long-lasting products because they fear of food shortages because of Covid-19. “At the forefront of Covid-19 food habits is the reliance on shelf-stable food products; in the early days of the pandemic, panic buying saw many consumers stockpile items such as beans, soups and other canned foods,” Arian Bassari, consumer analyst at UK market research company ...
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