A look at the data: New households continued to buy alt-meat products throughout 2021, though there was a clear drop off in sales from the plant-based salad days of 2020.
Source: Plant Based Migration Analysis, 84.51 Insights, Kroger Shopper Data, 2020 & 2021
While consumer purchasing data from American supermarket chain Kroger shows that the average plant-based household decreased their spend on animal-based foods, refrigerated alt-meat products didn't seem to benefit from the overall trend between 2020 and 2021.
While 2020's numbers show an explosion of new refrigerated alt-meat customers, 2021 had significantly fewer new adopters — and a lot more consumers leaving the category.
But it's not all doom and gloom: There was a slight…