PMG Retail Merchandising
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Greer’s Market Store #27 in Hurley, Miss., took first place in the first-ever display and sales contest featuring Sunrays grapes from Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Jac. Vandenberg.
There’s no bigger sales lift in the spring than Easter week.
Every business has its version of “cap space” and how to manage it.
If I took one lesson away from the recent PMG Produce Artist Award Series winter display contest, it was that merchandising creativity is alive and well. Much more than I’ve thought.
Categories we want to spotlight this season are berries, sweet corn, Vidalia onions, asparagus and mangoes.
With Mid-Autumn festivities fast approaching in key Asian markets, T&G Global has launched an integrated marketing campaign to encourage consumers to celebrate full moon festivities with Envy apples.
When customers see a familiar label, a popular growing region known for the elevated quality of fresh produce grown, they slow down, and they buy.
Among the speakers will be Brian Dey, senior merchandiser, Four Seasons Produce. Dey will speak at the GOPEX session Merchandising Show & Tell: Hands of Gold at Work.
Fall is all about the harvest bounty — bubbling hot jonathan apple pies adorned with sugary laced lattice tops, jack-o-lantern pumpkins, ornamental gourds, sweet fall grapes, hard squash and crunchy apples.
What can retailers do to move more grapes? Pricing, product assortment, and promotion are obviously key factors, but what else can tip the scales?
Summer may be gone, but the sunshine continues! Join The Packer and Produce Market Guide for the 2021 Summer Produce Artist Award Series results webinar, Oct. 6 at 1:00 pm CT.
Thanksgiving is the most bankable holiday of the year for produce sellers, but the other fall and winter holidays aren’t too shabby either.
Stemilt’s Fast Facts: The Cast is back and starts their fall return by analyzing the last eight weeks of Nielsen retail scan data ending on October 4, 2021.
Talks with produce merchandising experts, marketing gurus and data strategists have caused some ideas to gel when it comes to merchandising your produce during the fast-approaching holiday season.
When placed next to produce items, Tajin Seasonings increases sales, according to research conducted by Tajin in partnership with independent research firm DLG Research.
For Mexican-sourced avocados, the big game is now … and next week, and the week after, until the official game that’s, ahem, super important.
The average U.S. promoted retail price for apples was up an average of 5% in 2021 compared with 2020.
Staff, order, prep and stock the produce department so that whatever decision is reached, it’s because the offerings are so fresh, the stock level so nice, that in that moment any decision is a good decision.
It’s quite a commitment to attempt offering a clean and fresh produce department when shopping traffic heats up.
Sustainability is a global issue, and The Packer’s Sept. 13-17 virtual Sustainable Produce Summit will bring in high-profile speakers from within and outside of the industry to address key developments
Stokes Purple sweet potatoes are back in season, and it’s the ideal time to showcase these colorful tubers.
Grapes are one of the strongest categories that a produce operation offers, with impressive volume and dollar sales.
The winter promotions at G&R Farms are focused on the Season of Giving, when retailers can take advantage of both the holiday promotional time period and also a higher likelihood consumers will feel charitable.
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Oppy has released its first-ever hydroponic strawberry collection Happy Berry, the company announced in a news release.
Mixing things up in the produce department can help boost sales and a store’s reputation, says columnist Armand Lobato.
The Bee Sweet Citrus team plans to showcase its modernized label and new point-of-sale material at IFPA’s inaugural Global Produce and Floral Show.
These bright, colorful holiday produce merchandising display photos were submitted by Jude Leong, produce manager at the Yokota Air Base Commissary, western Tokyo, for PMG’s 2022 Winter Produce Artist Awards Series.
Bakersfield, Calif.-based Country Sweet Produce’s Bako Sweet consumer brand is giving shoppers brightly colored, triple-washed and consistently sized sweet potatoes for Easter sales.
If retail is theater, produce takes center stage at Hy-Vee. The 285-store supermarket operates food and drug stores in a variety of formats. Hy-Vee has seen its produce department grow steadily over the past decade.