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Retail food sales are still up big, but the cruise control button is off.

Marketing to different ethnic and demographic groups requires flexibility and a diverse portfolio of products, marketers say.

Potato and onion suppliers say they will have plenty of product on hand for Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts in 2020.

Specialty varieties play a central role in marketing potatoes and onions, marketers say.

Fresh Express is recalling Caesar Supreme salad kits after a random test yielded a positive result for E. coli.

Retail and consumer requests for bagged avocados have been inching upward for the past several years, but the onset of the coronavirus seems to have intensified that demand, grower-shippers say.

With recent retail scan data showing volume and dollar sales for apples down compared with a year ago, adjusting promotion and pricing strategies may be in order.

Alpine Fresh, Miami, is offering purple Brussels sprouts.

Los Angeles-based grower/packer/shipper Progressive Produce will see an expanded organic Heirloom Navel orange program towards the end of the year and into the first quarter of 2021.

A coordinated strategy of aggressive retail push and consumer pull activities has already driven sales of 2020-crop SweeTango® apples to the top of the charts this season, growers of the managed variety report.