Now that we are firmly in the grip of the icy, cold winter months, your customers will continue to look for comforting, yet healthy, foods to carry them through the bulk of the winter. Potatoes fit the bill for both.
The Los Alamitos, Calif.-based produce company is making the case to center produce as a food-as-medicine answer to support beleaguered shoppers surviving 2022’s cold and flu season.
To celebrate the opening, Jan. 7, the Lakewood, Colo.-based grocer will offer discounts on select organic produce items, including bunched spinach, kiwi, spaghetti squash and aloe vera leaves.
The Packer’s Organic Fresh Trends 2023 survey found that 14% of consumers said they exclusively shop for organic carrots, down slightly from 16% in 2022 but up from 11% in 2021.
Family-operated organic and natural grocery retailer Natural Grocers has turned its holiday food bank fundraiser from ho-hum to hooray at its Evergreen, Colo. store.
Sustainable packaging is so complex that it can cause a company to throw its collective hands up in surrender. But don’t. Our lives, our Earth and, ultimately, our businesses are at stake.
"This month alone, we will offer more than $360 million in savings, ensuring our customers have all the fresh and festive food they need to make their holidays memorable," said Kroger's Matt Meyer.
The organization provides retailers with tips to maximize potato categories throughout the store and online to increase long-term sales, said Kayla Vogel, senior global marketing manager for consumer and retail.
A technology company focused on helping manage fresh-food inventory using artificial intelligence is going to be implemented at Michigan grocery stores as part of a pilot program.
Retailers saw a jump in sales of packaged produce when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted and shoppers tried to avoid picking up product that others may have touched. Now there’s another reason to buy packaged product.
To learn how The Giant Co., Carlisle, Pa., gears up for the big game with fresh produce, The Packer recently connected with Director of Produce and Floral Chris Keetch.
FoodMix Marketing Communications used proprietary research to uncover how food and food channels are changing, innovating, improving — and even in some instances, going back to the basics in 2023.
The in-store experience is everything. How does Sprouts continue to drive fresh produce sales through department design and merchandising or display elements that give produce a higher profile?
Data released by USDA on Monday shows the farm share of the U.S. food dollar hit an all-time low in 2021. However, USDA says the decrease doesn’t necessarily mean producers are making less.
Rising digital sales and a continuing emphasis on fresh food helped The Kroger Co. achieve strong results in the third quarter, company officials said.
Listen to the podcast chat: A large grocery wholesaler is partnering with a vertical farm company to grow greens on the premises of its distribution centers — improving faster, fresher access to retailers.
Salad greens and lettuces at retail have transformed the last few decades from intact bunches and heads to plastic bags and clamshells of baby greens, triple-washed and ready to eat.
Usually clustered in transparent, breathable, resealable bags, grapes don’t have the same crazy-cool stacking options as some produce that’s hardier or in hard-plastic clamshells.
A naturopathic medical practitioner makes the case for cooking with fresh pumpkins — with actionable takeaways for produce professionals and consumers — for functional health, taste, utility and increasing sales.
The Cincinnati-based grocer announced trends heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, sharing that it expects to sell 6.2 million pounds — or 100 truckloads — of fresh cranberries this holiday.
As we steamroll through fall (hey, where did 2022 go?), we have to continually switch up our counters with the abundant fall crops and bountiful fruit that the season provides.
Chris Miller is someone who can nerd out with a colleague over a moon and stars variety of watermelon — so much that shoppers will stop and ask about it.
The Bronx, N.Y.-based company has partnered with Farm to People, a New York City-based service for delivering local, sustainable and ethically sourced produce and pantry items to home cooks.
You may think social media — aside from LinkedIn — can’t help you because you focus on industry customers, rather than consumers. That thinking can be a mistake.
October online grocery sales were steady but down 3% versus a year ago, according to the monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded Oct. 28-29, 2022.
Travel with us as we take the journey of the apple from the orchard to the packing house to the storage facility and then to the restaurant and supermarket.
