Produce Retail
The Retail Produce Tour on Oct. 26, at the International Fresh Produce Association’s Global Produce & Floral Show in Orlando, offered two buses and was sold out with a waiting list.
International Fresh Produce Association has announced five winners of the IFPA Retail Merchant Innovation Awards Program.
The first boxes of SnapDragon apples are arriving in stores as growers across New York state are handpicking the Crunch Time Apple Growers apple.
The grocery retailer invites private brand suppliers across categories — including fresh produce — to apply.
The “flattening of the curve” in price inflation is a welcome change following the consistent, significant, year-over-year price increases the U.S. has experienced every month from January to July 2022, IRI says.
Retailers may need to be more flexible this fall season on the size, region and variety of potatoes they’re willing to accept from suppliers.
Focal Systems will help Piggly Wiggly Midwest digitize entire stores to automate and optimize ordering, inventory management, merchandising and in-store labor — which could improve the freshness of produce.
Produce for Better Health focuses on influencers before and during IFPA’s show.
The meal plan feature includes a budget tracker, an expanded library of more than 8,000 exclusive recipes, shoppable ingredient lists and hands-free cooking mode with step-by-step timer.
There’s less of an excuse to choose the candy or chips when you have fresh salad options in vending machines.
Starting with sunny displays, brighten the shopper’s basket with more lemons.
Marianne Santo, three-time president of Eastern Produce Council and senior category manager of produce and floral at Wakefern Food Corp., died Sept. 24.
After scrolling, searching and, to be honest, doing what we normally do on social media, see what we liked about these posts from produce-focused professionals and companies on three major social media platforms.
This is what Walmart rolled out to tens of thousands of store associates and how it will affect their jobs.
In a move to advance the Kroger-Albertsons merger, the retailers have entered an agreement to divest with C&S Wholesale Grocers, selling 413 stores, eight distribution centers, two offices and five private-label brands.
Albertsons Cos., Boise, Idaho, has launched Flash grocery service, allowing customers to receive their DriveUp & Go and delivery orders in as little as 30 minutes.
Your supermarket has to be a destination for fresh, says Robert Nickels, who spearheads category management, procurement and merchandising of fresh produce and floral for Giant Food.
Mulling over melon practices: My, how our perspective changes as we grow up, open our minds and discover that the Greatest Generation might have known something we didn’t.
Inspired by one of the 50,000 recipes on Food52.com? Now, with a Chicory partnership, shoppers can buy those ramps and rambutans with the click of a button — from their preferred local grocery retailer.
Fifteen produce and floral managers at area supermarkets participated in New England Produce Council’s first Produce Manager Leadership Development Program at NEPC’s Produce, Floral & Foodservice Expo.
After 38 years with the Hy-Vee grocery store chain based in West Des Moines, Iowa, Greg Kimmel won national recognition for his creativity and extensive produce knowledge.
This is the role of produce as the return of restaurants heats up the competition for grocery retailers.
When Kathleen Marvel took a job as supermarket florist, she didn’t expect her creations would be seen on TV by millions worldwide.
Leslie Jefferson, a certified nutrition specialist and community health manager at Giant Food, expands what food-as-medicine means for a grocery store by factoring in equal access to healthy opportunities for all.
The line between foodservice and retail continues to blur with a new salad-kit partnership between P.F. Chang’s and Mann Packing Co.
Shoppers might not be too familiar with how to select or eat papayas, says merchandising expert Brian Dey. This is where your skills and education become the key cog in the success of selling papaya.
One of the benefits of packaged produce is the ease of correctly ringing it up, whether it’s the store cashier or the shopper doing it themselves with an app, a price gun, a smart cart or self-checkout station.
Learn some fun facts about this highly regarded root.
See how the Schaumburg, Ill., Amazon Fresh’s store displays looked on a random day.
A produce professional was stocking the department shelves on a summery mid-morning Monday at Food Lion in Greystone Village in North Raleigh, N.C.