What Happens to Your $100 After You Scan?

A full cart can feel expensive. What most shoppers never see is how quickly that money gets divided once it crosses the register.

Most of that $100 never becomes profit. It pays for the products in the cart, the people moving them through the store, refrigeration, electricity, equipment, repairs, technology, payment fees, shrink and everything else required to keep a grocery store operating.

Across food retail, the margin left at the end is remarkably thin. That is the part of grocery most customers never see: small dollars per basket, enormous volume, relentless execution.