Lent: the 40-day seafood holiday

摘要

Retailers sell lots of fish during Lent. Stew Leonard's sells more than most.Stew Leonard's just might operate the busiest seafood departments of any four-store supermarket ..... chain in North America. On one day just before Christmas the seafood department at the company's flagship store in Norwalk, Conn., sold more than 150,000dollar (eur 112,000) in seafood. A typical U.S. seafood department averages about 10,000dollar in sales a week at Christmas. "We were rocking at 6 a.m. The store was bananas, People make it a tradition to come to Stew Leonard's for Christmas," says Fred Papp, seafood manager for the 40-year-old Connecticut-based retailer's Norwalk store. "Every time of the year we're getting ready for some other fish holiday.