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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Produce retail data from the first half of 2022 show trends in the marketplace that can be used as opportunities for growth — as well as solutions for the industry’s ongoing challenges.

The produce supplier and supermarket chain create a display with more than 77,000 pounds of bananas in Westmont, Ill.

How do we maximize the small window that cherries have to gain some added tonnage and profits, while doing it with a minimal amount of shrink?

Hy-Vee hosts a quarterly local summit Sept. 7-9, inviting Midwestern vendors to submit products for potential Hy-Vee distribution.

Stop & Shop Supermarket Co.’s $140 million capital investment in New York City stores will have thousands more items from around the world and highlight value for local customers. Plus, the Flashfood app launches.

To celebrate its 90th anniversary, the Chandler, Ariz.-based supermarket chain will try to break a Guinness World Records title, hold a Community Choice Charity Challenge, host grocery gift-card giveaways and more.

NEW YORK — A helmeted e-bike rider with a black backpack full of groceries bolted from a building’s double doors on a Thursday morning on the Lower East Side.

The partnered project has launched in New York City, Washington D.C. and Houston with plans to extend into more cities in 2022.

The Sustainable Produce Summit’s keynote was Neil Stern, CEO of Good Food Holdings — which operates Bristol Farms, Lazy Acres Natural Market, Metropolitan Market, New Seasons Market and New Leaf Community Markets.

Great Neck, N.Y.-based William H. Kopke Jr. Inc. is redesigning its Sweetums family of branded fruit, which includes citrus, grapes, cherries, pears, kiwi and berries.