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After securing a $1 million co-investment from the Digital Technology Supercluster, Wisebox Solutions’ DirectFood.store is expanding with its first location outside Canada to provide Charleston, S.C.

Dole Fresh Vegetables has added three salads to its FreshTakes Bowl Salads line.

Belvidere, N.J.-based Edible Garden, a greenhouse grower of herbs and lettuces, has launched a unique campaign to seek investors to expand.

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.