DALLAS — Case-ready meat is rising in popularity. At the recent Annual Meat Conference (AMC) March 5 –8, panelists Stacey Couch, marketing development director, Retail and E-Commerce at Sealed Air Inc., Jamie Dik, segment business lead case ready at Cargill, and Catie Cantrell, director, meat operations at Heinen’s, all discussed the intricacies of case-ready meat.
The case-ready breakout session at the AMC first dove into the National Meat Case Study findings, led by Stacey Couch’s examination of these retail trends in the fresh meat case. The study found that case-ready packages, led by turkey and chicken, continued to rise across proteins. Seventy-six percent of SKUs are case-ready. The study also found that beef is most likely to be cut in store, but case-ready has risen to 71% of packages.
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