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Waste and wrapping cucumbers
A new study by Wrap, a British organization promoting sustainability, has released a study contending that wrapping certain fresh produce...
GRAPHIC: U.S. mango imports rebound in Q4 from pandemic slump
U.S. mango volume in the fourth quarter of 2021 showed a 20 percent rise from the same quarter in 2020....
Tour the new Whole Foods with Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology
Washington, D.C. (Feb. 23, 2022) – Whole Foods Market opened its store at 2323 Wisconsin Ave. N.W. in Washington, D.C.’s Glover Park...
Hazard versus risk: Why it matters
What’s the difference between hazard and risk? In ordinary language, the distinction is rather spongy. It’s quite otherwise in a...
Established customers drive 3.5 times more eGrocery revenue than new ones
Barrington, Ill. – February 23, 2022 – Long-term, established online grocery customers collectively generated more than 3.5 times the revenue...
They can’t really call it ‘Amazon Stale’
In the past, I have betrayed a certain lack of fondness for the Amazon Fresh BB #:283186 concept. I admit...
Whole Foods’ San Francisco flagship and the legacy of the hippie co-op
I lived in San Francisco for close to twenty years, but I haven’t been back since 2010. It’s not always...
ProduceIQ: Avocados resume, berries ripe for promotion
If it is true that “bad news is good news and no news is bad news,” then the avocado industry...
U.S.-Mexico trade: Beyond the avocado moratorium
Now that avocado imports have resumed after a nearly week-long interruption, it may be time to look at the issue...
Kroger opens restaurant ghost kitchen at Houston location
HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Kroger BB #:100073 and Kitchen United MIX announced today the opening of a kitchen...
Restaurant sales drop again in January
January marked the second month in a row that restaurant sales dropped from the previous month. According to data from...
Produce prices prove to be elastic
Econ 101 term: elasticity. In this context, it refers to how much sales of a given product go up or...
Mexican avocado imports to U.S. resume
WASHINGTON, February 18, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today...
Increased options for compost
In a column on compostable packaging in the produce industry last week, I suggested that in urban settings, even compostable...
High inflation boosts produce dollars at retail but volume pressure persists in January
Coronavirus concern levels among primary grocery shoppers have remained mostly flat between September 2021 and January 2022, according to the...
USDA, Mexican officials working to reopen avocado exports
USDA and Mexican agriculture officials have been working together in Washington, D.C., and Mexico to lift the suspension of Mexican...
Mexican president questions motivation behind avocado ban
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in a press conference Monday that the U.S. suspension of avocado shipments from...
The avocado moratorium and the hybrid regime
I apparently made a misstatement in yesterday’s column. I referred to Mexico as “a full-blown democracy.” It turns out that...
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