Produce Retail
With the time crunch of operating a produce department, it can be tempting to hurry that next order — but it will cost you even more time and money if you don’t take proper inventory first, says columnist Armand Lobato.
The Albertsons Cos. banner says it decreased food waste and increased donations in three months after using Divert’s solutions to streamline its operations.
Market conditions are making berry imports even more desirable for retailers.
Chile’s challenges with shipping, plus labor — sound familiar? — have put a dent in export volumes of fresh fruit, but key players are collaborating to resolve the issue using all sorts of strategies.
A technology company focused on helping manage fresh-food inventory using artificial intelligence is going to be implemented at Michigan grocery stores as part of a pilot program.
Chris Jorgensen, a produce manager at Food Lion store No. 1472 in Gloucester, Va., is special. Why?
Sustainable packaging is so complex that it can cause a company to throw its collective hands up in surrender. But don’t. Our lives, our Earth and, ultimately, our businesses are at stake.
Let’s shed some light on a merchandising technique not mentioned recently, with the help of DayStar Systems.
After bananas and apples, the perennial household favorites, tomatoes, typically go toe-to-toe with potatoes, carrots and onions jockeying for position in the shopping cart.
The cost of produce and other groceries is hurting supermarkets while fueling sales for mass stores such as Walmart. But there’s more to it than that.
Now that we are firmly in the grip of the icy, cold winter months, your customers will continue to look for comforting, yet healthy, foods to carry them through the bulk of the winter. Potatoes fit the bill for both.
Wegmans Food Markets issued a voluntarily recall on its products containing microgreens, sweet pea leaves and cat grass because of potential salmonella contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Baldor Specialty Foods is not one to be left behind in trends.
One sentiment among my interviews and chats for this PMG magazine issue stuck with me personally.
Greensboro, N.C.-based The Fresh Market has navigated its way through all the 2023 trends lists by culling five it calls the “most delicious.”
Gmelich has more than 25 years of experience in brand development, marketing strategy and customer loyalty.
FoodMix Marketing Communications used proprietary research to uncover how food and food channels are changing, innovating, improving — and even in some instances, going back to the basics in 2023.
We may think first of the fiery orange-hued version when we conjure an image of a sweet potato in our heads, but produce is never that simple, is it?
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services provides the Fresh From Florida-branded bins to retail partners, and they can be used as endcaps or stand-alone floor displays.
With food inflation woes weighing on the minds of many heading into spring, Walmart says it wants its customers to focus on celebrating rather than skimping this Easter.
A leader who gives what is needed to succeed often sees a return in worker moral — and optimal sales, says columnist Armand Lobato.
Mighty Reds joins Naturipe Farms’ proprietary big blueberries, Mighty Blues, in the company’s line of extra-large berries.
Produce managers may not have to dive deep into accounting, but they’re not off the hook when it comes to understanding the books; they should know enough to assess department performance, says columnist Armand Lobato.
With grocery food inflation still topping 10%, the mid-March Bureau of Labor Statistics report on consumer prices pegged overall year-over-year inflation at 6% in February.
On a year-over-year basis, the U.S. consumer inflation rate for all items cooled to 4.9% in April, down slightly from 5% in March, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The California-based avocado grower-distributor has received three awards from the advertising industry’s largest competition, recognizing the company’s avocado integrated-advertising campaign.
Most notably, the cuts would gut fruit and vegetable benefits by nearly 62%, the association said, substantially decreasing access to nutritious foods for almost 5 million women and kids enrolled in the WIC program.
Innovation is a key theme in this issue. Read about fresh produce vending machines, live-streaming shoppable videos, actionable data analytics, and watermelons winning on social media — and much more.
Bulk onions account for the vast majority of onion sales in the U.S., but consumer packs continue to gain popularity.
There’s a lot of critical work that happens in the produce department’s backroom, but many do not have an inside perspective of how much happens there — and when it occurs — says columnist Armand Lobato.