Produce Retail
Healthy eating continues to gain momentum, and the Fresh Trends 2022 Study shows people equate organic produce with healthy — even more so than produce in general.
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.
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.
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.
Some online grocery survey results are actually surprising.
Students benefit by expanding their palates, taste-testing healthy foods and learning about food origins.
In what could be the first move of its kind for a massive retailer, Walmart is investing in an indoor vertical leafy greens grower: Plenty Unlimited Inc., based in South San Francisco.
McClellan joined SpartanNash in 2019 and previously served as vice president of fresh merchandising.
More than 70% of U.S. households ordered groceries — including fresh produce — online in 2021, at least once.
We pulled out the four trends that pertain to the produce industry from the predictions released by Chicago-based FoodMix Marketing Communications.
Now, more than ever, employee wellness is not just a human resources concern.
The new program provides convenient access to customers using pre-paid cards funded by Medicare Advantage plans, employer incentives, healthcare providers or local governments.
In partnership with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, the company is awarding $300,000 in grants to projects focused on protecting water resources.
Williamsville, N.Y.-based Tops Friendly Markets, a grocery retailer in New York, northern Pennsylvania and Vermont, has promoted Jeff Cady to vice president of produce and floral as part of Shared Services Center.
The fourth Eastern Produce Council Leadership Class — including produce retailer and supplier professionals — saw first-hand the increasing complexity of the produce logistics and distribution system.
In Episode 3 of Season 2 of the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast, we meet Angela Scarfia, a bonafide exotic fruit expert — and in her “free” time, no less.
In March, total U.S. online grocery sales diminished to $8.7 billion from $9.3 billion in March 2021 — a 6% decline, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded March 28 and 29.
Millions of consumers benefitted from Healthy Family Project’s annual Mission for Nutrition initiative — and so did produce brand partners.
Eastern Produce Council had its annual Casino Night gala April 9 at Westmount Country Club in Woodland Park, N.J.
Quick, name one vegetable ready for snacking in its original form.
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Freshcourt, Coral Gables, Fla., has two new avocado value-added items for sale at retail.
In one corner of the ring awaits the longtime champion, National or Consumer Brand of Produce. Across the boxing ring in the other corner is up-and-comer Retail Brand, or Private Label. Who will win?
Top industry experts will share their insight about how technology can improve grocer warehouse and in-store operations in a free webinar at 1 p.m. Pacific/4 p.m. Eastern on March 30.
Brick Meets Click year-over-year analysis shows grocery pickup sales continues to capture the largest share of total online grocery sales at 47%, while delivery captures 37% and ship-to-home drops to 16%.
Don’t be afraid to get a little personal on social media, even on the business-focused Linkedin platform.
Willard “Bill” Bishop — who co-founded grocery digital analytics firm Brick Meets Click — died March 25. Bishop was 80.