Produce - General
The best produce professionals maintain a certain level of humility and openness to learning and growing in the industry. One way to learn in small doses is on social media.
The results are in. The judges have decided. These are the winners in the 2021 Summer Produce Artist Award Series.
Phoenix, Ariz.-based Sprouts Farmers Market will address how food and nutrients can ease anxiety and inflammation while supporting a healthy immune system in a live-streamed event with health experts.
One of the three online shopping avenues is growing, while the other two are sliding back a bit, which can affect how retailers target fresh produce sales strategies.
A mere few months ago, nine in 10 Americans expected to celebrate the winter holidays like they would normally, but the fall’s upswing in COVID-19 case counts is yet again causing disruptions, a new study shows.
Chris Keetch, director of produce and floral for The Giant Co., Carlisle, Pa., is the Produce Retailer of the Year in 2021.
This week, we loved your posts about inspiring industry professionals, cartoon robot chefs and cocktail contests.
Walmart plans to build a high-tech distribution center for fresh and frozen groceries in Spartanburg County, S.C., set to open in 2024.
Cucumbers and packaged salads were the two exceptions in the decline in dollar sales of the top 10 vegetable categories, according to United Fresh’s second-quarter 2021 issue of FreshFacts on Retail.
Released Oct. 18, the list is accompanied by the retailer’s first Whole Foods Discovery Box, a curated assortment of 10 products reflective of these trends, sold directly to consumers.
Kansas City, Kan.-based Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. has established a preferred partnership with TimeForge, a data-driven labor management software suite serving the retail grocery industry.
Listen to Episode 69, featuring two new editors at The Packer and PMG, discussion about the coming GOPEX show in Florida and retail shortages.
Welcome to winter 2022: Empty grocery shelves are back, and staffing is reduced by as much as half in some cases.
A new partnership with Spoon Guru identifies healthy options — such as fresh fruit and vegetables — and tracks purchases for shoppers at St. Louis-based Schnucks Markets’ 111 stores.
SpartanNash stores in nine states contribute funds to help families struggling with food insecurity through annual campaign.
Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show with nearly 5,000 watching the live stream introduction, John Deere introduces its full autonomy solution for tractors, which will be available to farmers later in 2022.
In 2022, Walmart plans to increase fivefold its InHome service of delivering groceries right into a customer’s refrigerator — even when they’re not home.
The Food Desert Relief Act strives to facilitate development, construction and sustainable operations of new supermarkets and grocery stores within designated food desert communities.
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?
Watch the whole webinar, see who won each category and hear tips and tricks from produce merchandising experts.
Some online grocery survey results are actually surprising.
Here are the top 10 commodities searched for on Produce Market Guide in 2021.
Students benefit by expanding their palates, taste-testing healthy foods and learning about food origins.
After three years of participating in major industry events, we improved our sourcing and connections with suppliers nationwide. At that time, we had only six stores, so it took a lot to get noticed by large suppliers.
Such events show just how vulnerable we are to attacks that can randomly take major portions of our infrastructure off-line without warning.
AFBF’s in-person annual convention focused on everything from H-2A workers, drought, supply chain chaos and policy changes like the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack addressed the group Monday.
More than 70% of U.S. households ordered groceries — including fresh produce — online in 2021, at least once.
We love trends lists! So let’s delve into what the industry expects to happen with produce in 2022.
For 142 years, a secret seed society at Michigan State University has uncovered one of the world’s oldest science experiments, answering how long weed seeds remain viable. Today, one weed species continues to sprout.