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Blog ArchiveYou Are What You Buy
Graham Spanier
November 13, 2008 What’s selling at the campus convenience store? As one who likes to keep up with student tastes, I recently visited one of our campus stores. We have them scattered throughout the residence halls. I realized I didn’t have a clue what some of the new items were. And who knew that microwavable food had become so popular and, apparently, so appealing? So I spoke with the manager of one of our campus convenience stores and asked for the inventory list. Although the most popular items being sold today include some products I had never heard of, students I interviewed assured me that most of these products are excellent. The 20 items below alone account for more than 837,000 sales last year. First (drum roll, please), the top 10 non-drink convenience items: 1. Dannon Light & Fit Strawberry Yogurt 2. Bagel Bites 3 Cheese 3. Stouffers Mac & Cheese meal 4. Bagel Bites Pepperoni 5. Dannon Light & Fit Raspberry Yogurt 6. Nutrigrain Bar Strawberry 7. Hot Pocket Pepperoni Single 8. Nutrigrain Bar Apple Cinnamon 9. Betty Crocker Bowl Appetite 3 Cheese Rotini 10. Lunchables Cheese Pizza Next, (another drum roll, please), the top ten drink items: 1. 20-ounce Pepsi sodas (Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist are tops) 2. 20-ounce Aquafina Water 3. 20-ounce Gatorade (Glacier Freeze, Fruit Punch, Lemon/Lime are tops) 4. Sobe 20-ounce (Lizard Lava, Lizard Fuel, Power, & Green Tea are tops) 5. Lipton Tea 16-ounce (Lemon, Sweetened, Extra Sweet, Diet w/lemon are tops) 6. Dole Juice (apple, orange, grape, cranberry are tops) 7. Energy Drinks (Amp lemon/line, Amp Overdrive are tops) 8. 1-liter Pepsi Sodas 9. 32-ounce Gatorade (Cool Blue, Lemon/lime, Fruit Punch are tops) 10. 2-liter Pepsi Sodas Clearly we are a Pepsi school. With sales like this, it is no wonder Pepsi is willing to contribute so much to the scholarships and other funds of the university as a part of our arrangement. Moreover, it is obvious that parents need not worry about the fluid intake of their children, although I can’t vouch for the shifts that take place in consumption on weekend nights. |
