Americans' Spending on Dining Out Just Overtook Grocery Sales for the First Time Ever

Could be another reason to blame or credit millennials
Photographer: ANDREW HARRER/Bloomberg
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Grocery stores are finding it harder to make headway with shoppers as a surge in spending at restaurants over the past several months signals Americans are more likely to ditch the brown bags in favor of doggy bags.