How conventional, organic blueberry prices are doing at retail

This is how blueberry prices are bumping up and dipping down at retail, according to data from Agtools.

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Blueberries are a shopper favorite these days, so you need to know what’s up.

See how the national average retail price of 18-ounce blueberry clamshells, a popular package size for blueberries, has changed in the first quarter of the year for the last three years — and how prices compare between conventional and organic.

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The historical data can inform your supermarket purchasing, marketing, promotion and merchandising decisions this summer. Conventional blueberries have sold at supermarkets generally within the $4 and $5 range at the start of the year for the last three years, except when the price jumped in late February and late March, both in 2023.

Organic blueberry prices have fluctuated much more wildly in 2022 and 2023, meeting at almost the same price point by early March. This comes after a steady, incremental climb in 2021.

This data is powered by Agtools, a data science and analytics company providing a worldwide software as-a-service platform gathering real-time government and institutional data of more than 500 specialty crops and commodities. The Agtools platform includes algorithms and machine learning for farmers, buyers and everyone on the supply chain to see and decide how to manage their forecasting and purchase orders.

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