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Prepared comfort foods, chocolate indulgences and petite bottles of sparkling wines are some of the best on-the-run sellers from around the country.

Pam Richards, Reid’s Fine Foods, Charlotte, NC
Customers have made many of our prepared foods their favorite grab-and-go items. These foods have become the backbone of our case.
• Palmetto Cheese
• Reid’s Macaroni and Cheese
• Reid’s Marinated Chicken Breasts
• Reid’s Muffin-style Cornbread
• Reid’s Private Label Chocolate Pecans

Gloria Griskowitz, Putnam Market, Saratoga Springs, NY
Small-sized chocolate right at the register is quick and easy for customers. Other products are a draw because of their uniqueness. Great grab-and-go items are:
• Aurora Products Veggie Chips
• Kettle Chips Lightly Salted Chips
• Lake Champlain Chocolates
• McVities Dark Chocolate Digestives Biscuits (right)
• Putnam Market Devil’s Food Cupcakes

Ann Addis, Metropulos Fine Foods Merchant, Santa Barbara, CACustomers choose special things either from our refrigerated grab-and-go case or from the impulse area by the register. These items include:
• Brown Butter Cookie Company Brown Butter Cookies (top-right)
• D’Anjou Bakery Fruit and Nut Crostini
• Fra’Mani handcrafted salamettis and salametti piccante
• Pastificio Pozzo del Re multi-colored pasta
• Supreme Nougat of Montelimar
• Vosges Haut-Chocolat Mo’s Bacon Bar (right)

Amelia Rappaport and Patrick Crowl, Woodstock Farmers’ Market, Woodstock, VTWe merchandise hot-selling items mostly near the registers, but we’ll feature them at certain times of the year on end-cap thematic displays. Some of these products are:
• Bequet Sea Salt Caramels
• Lake Champlain Chocolate Bars
• Marish English Toffee Caramels
• Unique Pretzel Splits (left)
• Woodstock Farmers’ Market Belgian
• Chocolate Chip Cookies

Libations on the Go

“We sell a lot of French Rabbit [Tetra Paks] to the 25-year-old crowd who like to take wines with them on outings or longer trips. A fair amount of boxed wines are doing well—they are economical and they stay colder longer, especially at picnics. The Bota Box in Cabernet, Merlot, Chardonnay and Pinot Grigio are our bestsellers, for about $20 a box. The 187-milliliter Pommery POP Brut Rose Champagne, (about a glass and a half), often given with a straw instead of a glass at bars, is popular with women.”

-Max Pendolari, Wine Emporium, Boston