Punjab Food Center

Area Served

About Punjab Food Center

The retail category of food stores includes grocery stores; meat and fish (or seafood) markets; fruit and vegetable markets; candy, nut, and confectionery stores; dairy product stores; retail bakeries; and miscellaneous food stores (including coffee stores, health food stores, vitamin food stores). Grocery stores account for about 95 percent of total food store sales and nearly 90 percent of all employment. Large chain-store companies operating supermarkets (full-line food stores with over $2 million in sales) dominate the grocery store category. Changes in consumer tastes and lifestyles continue to erode sales of many traditional grocery items. Shoppers increasingly stop at food markets searching for hot meals for take-out, freshly baked breads and pastries, and nonfood items such as health and beauty care products.