Earlier this week, a reporter from a consumer magazine contacted me to chat about added value items at the supermarket.
As I started pulling together examples of fresh ideas in produce, meat and deli, it occurred to me that some of the most inte...
Retailers are touting specialty roses, chocolates and surf and turf meal kits for Valentine’s Day.
Whole Foods, Stop & Shop, New Seasons Market and Bristol Farms are merchandising Fair Trade Roses at a time when conventional roses have been link...
Harmons and Sendik’s Food Market dedicate a lot of resources to their fresh-cut produce programs and continue to see sales results, the retailers said during an NGA Show panel Monday in Las Vegas.
Harmons, a 16-store retailer in Utah, makes $2...
King Kullen announced the retirement of two long-time perishables executives in a Facebook post. Sue Brooks, director of bakery and frozen foods, was a 36-year veteran, while Guy Savio, produce and floral coordinator, had been with the company fo...
The Fresh Market announced it has partnered with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a Florida-based tomato workers’ rights organization, to purchase more tomatoes from participating growers.
Beginning with the 2015-2016 growing season, the reta...
A new website called Produce Pipeline advertises daily flash sales with discounts of 10% to 20% for retailers, foodservice and wholesalers.
Though flash sale sites like Groupon have been around for years, it’s a relatively novel concept for the ...
A&P’s Waldbaum’s banner is competing with home and garden centers by selling a variety of holiday evergreen floral items for both inside and outside the home...
Local farmers’ markets are closed for the season across much of the US – but make no mistake, many shoppers, including some of your customers, will be counting down the days until they reopen next spring.
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