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With supply and demand stressors all over the board during the early months of the pandemic, grocers were forced to adapt quickly and skillfully to ever-changing conditions.

Who is Dole working with for an artificial intelligence-powered quality control software solution and how can it affect how retailers handle their produce transactions?

Send us your holiday and winter produce merchandising display photos for our 2022 Winter Produce Artists Awards Series.

Watch the whole webinar, see who won each category and hear tips and tricks from produce merchandising experts.

Houston-based Sysco Corporation has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Laurel, Md.-based The Coastal Companies from Continental Grain Company.

Fresh potato prices in late November were well above late 2020 levels while shipments of potatoes were lagging below year ago-levels, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics.

Every decent story, and likewise many lessons begin with: Once upon a time…

Inflation roared in 2021, hitting growers, distributors, restaurants, retailers and consumers, and creating concern about the course of the economic recovery.

It has been a challenging year for mushroom suppliers, but there have been rewards too.

With holiday buying and inflationary pressures coming together, the produce department in November experienced both the stresses of the pandemic and new factors, as well.