Opinion
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Kroger executives believe their new OptUp mobile app will change the way America eats, and they might be right.
A sure sign of any significant disruption of the avocado market, as our news editor Chris Koger has said more than once, is a story (or a 1,000 stories) about how Chipotle is coping with the shortage.
Many people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials as much as the game, and I imagine marketers in particular observe with interest the ads that companies pay millions to air.
Truck rates have been easing, but will the polar vortex change all that?
“Now if you could just solve the yam/sweet potato confusion.”
Lower prices for Florida tomatoes and Mexican avocados drove the Produce Price Index (my own creation) down to lower levels in late January, though prices for Idaho potatoes are trending higher.
A few years ago, Larry Danielson — a retired former employee of the Red Book (now Produce Market Guide) — mailed The Packer a slim 89-page paperback book.
Ah, those lovely interruptions — not catastrophes, yet mini crises all the same.
As promised, I said would look at the newly updated per capita availability numbers with an eye toward the under-performing fresh commodities compared with their peers.
Having taken a quick look this morning at the recently updated per capita numbers for fresh vegetables, I am here to tell you the winners and losers.
House Republicans are trying to pass a farm bill and likely must do it without help from the Democrats.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture pulled the plug on the proposed organic marketing board before the drama of a referendum could unfold.
I am still getting some insightful responses to my recent question:
Amazon wants you to buy groceries online, and it seems they will succeed.
I was talking with a Wisconsin potato shipper the other day and he mentioned that he (and others, of course) can’t wait for the day of self-driving, autonomous trucks.
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.”
Anyone who would put needles in strawberries is surely evil, or truly sick.
Kroger has named regional flavors, plant-based foods, eating styles, gut-healthy foods, and low sugar and natural sweeteners as the big trends for 2019.
Shipping point prices of romaine lettuce in December slid very low, from nearly $24 per carton early in the month to just $8 per carton late in the month.
Most of my friends are skeptical of digital assistants, marketed primarily now as Google Home Assistant and Amazon Echo (Alexa).
What is the relative importance of each state to the fresh produce industry?
There is no Dow Jones Average for produce, unfortunately, but the quest to measure the market persists.
How much is food choice based on a logical thought process versus an instinctual, “primal” desire?
Instead of going out to lunch for that quarter-pounder bacon burger, why not just pick the salad bar?
The urban legend of the Sports Illustrated cover jinx goes something to the effect that people or teams on the cover of the magazine subsequently experience bad luck.