It’s that time again! The produce industry is set to converge on Orlando, Fla., for Fresh Summit 2018. Are you ready with the right strategies to deepen your connections and broaden your network?
Fresh Summit is fast approaching. In the hustle to arrange booth plans, meetings and travel, it’s easy to lose sight of what you want to accomplish. Fresh Summit is about more than closing a deal.
Aldi is a company that I have always been fascinated by; with over 1,800 locations in 35 states, it has a revenue projection by retail analysts just north of $11 billion in 2018, yet they largely fly under the radar.
There’s a Chinese proverb: “When planning for a year, sow rice. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.”
Some people interpret the limited adoption of online grocery ordering as a sign that most shoppers simply are not interested in pickup or delivery and probably won’t be in the future either.
One of the best things a produce manager could say about a clerk, wasn’t that the person was the fastest stocker. Or that the person was thorough or neat or prompt — although these are certainly desirable traits.
As if our industry’s labor market isn’t already tight enough, the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.8% in May — the lowest since 2000, and only a few other times in modern history.
