Market Crush: Eternally fresh — Inside Rome’s Mercato Trionfale

ROME — Few produce shopping experiences beat the bustle of a Saturday morning at the Eternal City’s Mercato Trionfale, the latest destination in The Packer’s Market Crush series.

Rome's Mercato Trionfale
Rome’s Mercato Trionfale
(Jennifer Strailey)

Editor’s note: In this latest installment of The Packer’s Market Crush — a series featuring retail produce purveyors who are crushing it with dynamic displays that drive shoppers to buy — we take a look inside Rome’s Mercato Trionfale. To view other Market Crush stops click on the map below.


ROME — Few produce shopping experiences beat the bustle of a Saturday morning at the Eternal City’s Mercato Trionfale, where shoppers jockey for position to pick their fresh porcini mushrooms, radicchio, greens, grapes, ruby red tomatoes and more.

Here. produce purveyors swiftly restock and rearrange their offerings to maintain bountiful displays until they sell out of the day’s offerings, all while enthusiastically engaging with shoppers in this high-energy fresh market near the Vatican.

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