Snacks in supermarkets are becoming harder to sell, so why are snack shops so popular?


Release time:

2026-03-11

In 2023, snack collection stores (or "snack discount stores" and "mass snack stores") are making continuous efforts. Snack collection stores have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain and become a popular outlet. Relevant data shows that by the end of 2022, the number of snack collection stores (snack discount stores) in domestic cities exceeded 13,000. It is expected that by 2025, the number of domestic snack collection stores (snack discount stores) will reach 30,000. It can be said that the market is still growing at an accelerated pace.

Snacks in supermarkets are becoming harder to sell, so why are snack shops so popular?

In 2023, snack collection stores (or "snack discount stores" and "mass snack stores") are making continuous efforts. Snack collection stores have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain and become a popular outlet. Relevant data shows that by the end of 2022, the number of snack collection stores (snack discount stores) in domestic cities exceeded 13,000. It is expected that by 2025, the number of domestic snack collection stores (snack discount stores) will reach 30,000. It can be said that the market is still growing at an accelerated pace.

Cheapness is at the heart of the popularity of mass snack shops
According to the analysis of relevant industry insiders, cheapness is one of the core elements of mass snack stores. The main consumer group of snack shops is young people, or adults with children. Almost everyone has a basket of them, some are frantically sweeping all kinds of drinks, and some are carefully selecting snacks such as chicken feet, jelly, and dried tofu in the dazzling goods area.

How is the cheap price done?
What makes the snack collection store different is that it removes all kinds of intermediate links, there are no middlemen to earn the price difference, and there are no various entry fees and barcode fees.
Moreover, with the expansion of the scale of snack collection stores, the bargaining power continues to improve, and it is also possible to get more favorable factory prices from manufacturers, further reducing the retail price of snacks. For example, several major leisure snack brands have reached cooperation with snack collection stores to provide personalized customized products for snack collection store brands, which has become a major source of income for leisure snack brands.

Higher efficiency is also an advantage of snack collection stores
The snack collection store takes the path of the third and fourth tier cities surrounding the first and second tier cities, the sinking market is blooming everywhere, the rent is not high, which helps to enhance the brand awareness, and the proximity to the life of consumers not only improves the consumption efficiency of consumers, they may be able to buy it downstairs, but also improves the turnover efficiency of snack collection store products.