Weekly Hass Avocado Prices and Sales Volume Across U.S. Regions, 2013-2018

The Hass Avocado Board provides weekly retail scan data for Hass avocado sales and prices across U.S. regions. The dataset includes average price, total volume, and sales by product code (PLU) from 2013 through 2018, aggregated from multiple retail channels. It was compiled into a single CSV in May 2018.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional price fluctuations for avocados based on weekly time-series data.
• Analyzing sales volume differences between conventional and organic avocado types.
• Comparing total avocado sales and market share across different U.S. cities and regions.

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from retailer cash registers, reflecting actual retail sales.
• Covers multiple retail channels including grocery, mass, club, drug, dollar, and military.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation beyond the listed relevant columns is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Hass Avocado Board

Collection Method

Retail scan data aggregated from multiple retail channels.

Time Range

2013 to 2018

Geography

Cities and regions across the United States