Data from Information Resources Inc. (see chart) suggest that sales of nearly all refrigerated and frozen meat and poultry items have either been flat or declining.
While shopping frequency across most retail channels is flat or declining, supercenters - which enable consumers to combine shopping trips - continue to show growth.
It could be argued that there really isn't much "reality" in reality TV. It's not often that we find ourselves singing in front of millions of viewers, as contestants do every week on Fox's "American Idol," or dating 25 people at once, as "The Bachelor" does on ABC's reality TV show.