Consumers' desire for healthier snacks helped boost meat-snack and nutritional-snack sales, but it's baked goods and doughnut sales that grew by double digits in the first half of 2014, according to IRI c-store data for the 24 week period ending June 15, 2014, quite a turnaround from 2013.
Sweet Snacks
C-store sales, 24 weeks ending June 15, 2014
| Subcategory | C-store sales ($ millions) | PCYA* | Unit sales (millions) | PCYA* |
| Bakery snacks | $339.9 | 24.8% | 252.8 | 12.8% |
| Cookies | $286.9 | 1.1% | 275.5 | 0.6% |
| Pastry/Danish/Coffeecakes | $275.3 | -1.0% | 218.1 | -4.2% |
| Doughnuts | $258.7 | 18.5% | 177.2 | 13.2% |
| Muffins | $64.6 | -3.1% | 38.6 | -5.2% |
Source: IRI
* Percent change from a year ago
Salty Snacks
C-store sales, 24 weeks ending June 15, 2014
| Subcategory | C-store sales ($ millions) | PCYA* | Unit sales (millions) | PCYA* |
| Potato chips | $653.1 | 5.0% | 411.1 | 2.6% |
| Dried meat snacks | $591.8 | 8.0% | 239.9 | 4.4% |
| Tortilla/tostada chips | $380.9 | 7.7% | 206.5 | 4.1% |
| Other salted snacks (no nuts) | $344.7 | 2.0% | 194.1 | 1.4% |
| Cheese snacks | $235.2 | 4.9% | 148.1 | 1.5% |
| Crackers | $172.5 | -0.5% | 162.9 | -5.0% |
| Corn snacks | $145.4 | 2.1% | 87.4 | -1.3% |
| Pretzels | $99.4 | -1.8% | 65.5 | -2.6% |
| Ready-to-eat popcorn/caramel corn | $88.3 | 12.6% | 54.0 | 10.5% |
| Pork rinds | $75.7 | 4.4% | 51.3 | 1.6% |
| Nutritional/intrinsic health value bars | $226.0 | 7.1% | 109.9 | 6.9% |
| Breakfast/cereal/snack bars | $77.8 | 0.4% | 67.4 | -3.2% |
| Granola bars | $43.9 | -6.6% | 55.2 | -5.2% |
| Snack nuts | $230.1 | 4.7% | 188.2 | 2.4% |
| Sunflower/pumpkin seeds | $133.9 | -1.4% | 113.3 | -10.5% |
| Nutritional snacks/trail mixes | $88.5 | 8.7% | 34.2 | 6.4% |
Source: IRI
* Percent change from a year ago
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