{"id":680728,"date":"2025-11-15T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=680728"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:24:00","slug":"consumers-ditch-restaurants-for-groceries-as-budgets-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=680728","title":{"rendered":"Consumers Ditch Restaurants For Groceries As Budgets Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>we&#8217;re focusing on just two of the takeaways<\/strong>. The\u00a0<strong>first<\/strong>\u00a0is the alarming shift among low- and middle-income consumers who are increasingly giving up on eating out and instead buying groceries and eating at home:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Also noted was the\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>drag on restaurant traffic by non-restaurants, particularly grocery and c-stores<\/em><\/strong><em>. A combination of data and surveys indicate growing\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>evidence that consumers are leaving fast food and fast casual restaurants, replacing the meals with a combination of grocery<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0(Aldi and Trader Joe&#8217;s specifically highlighted as taking share), fresh format grocery (for example, the hot food bar at Whole Foods), and c-store food (particularly with breakfast).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/consumers-ditch-restaurants-groceries-budgets-break\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/consumers-ditch-restaurants-groceries-budgets-break<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we&#8217;re focusing on just two of the takeaways. The\u00a0first\u00a0is the alarming shift among low- and middle-income consumers who are increasingly giving up on eating out and instead buying groceries and eating at home: Also noted was the\u00a0drag on restaurant traffic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=680728\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680729,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680728\/revisions\/680729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}