Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, released the first-ever Instacart Economic Impact Report, quantifying the company’s economic impact across all four sides of the Instacart marketplace — customers, shoppers, retailers and brands.

The comprehensive analysis shows that Instacart has added over 231,000 brick-and-mortar grocery jobs and nearly $8 billion in incremental revenue for the U.S. grocery industry, generated more than $15 billion in earnings for Instacart shoppers, and saved customers more than 700 million total hours since the company was founded in

BK Trucking has been in business for more than four decades, the majority of business transporting bananas out of the Port of Wilmington. Its two biggest customers are Dole and Chiquita.

Working in Newfield, NJ, the operations are five minutes from the Vineland Cooperative Produce Auction. BK Trucking hauls Jersey Fresh produce as well as Chilean imported fruit. The company also hauls for other industries, including flatbed loads of steel, sod and grocery items.

This year, the company has seen consistent business thanks to its mainstay — the banana business.

“Bananas come in every week and

Atlanta is known for a large, successful produce scene thanks to a group of dedicated companies and growers that have been working in the area for decades.

In fact, the city has been branded the “King of the Southeast” by many in the industry due to its hotbed of activity for those working in the produce industry.

Without question, the No. 1 contributor to Atlanta’s thriving produce industry is the 150-acre Atlanta State Farmers Market in Forest Park, GA, which for more than 65 years, has been a hub for retail and wholesale produce. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the market is home

Your Christmas holiday merchandising program is probably already in place. The program likely includes the usual items such as yams, broccoli, mushrooms, grapes, celery, russet potatoes and other festive favorites.

Every supermarket in town will be promoting the same items using the same merchandising methods as always. Tradition usually dictates the item and manner in which it is programmed. However, that may not be as simple as it has been in the past. Elevated costs along with far-reaching profit budgets are overpowering and, in many situations, far-flung to achieve.

If you think that

Save A Lot has named interim CEO Fred Boehler to a permanent role as CEO. Boehler has been serving as interim CEO since Oct. 31, following the departure of former CEO Leon Bergmann.

Boehler is a seasoned supply chain executive with more than 30 years of experience across multiple retail and wholesale format businesses, spanning both large- and small-scale companies in a wide range of growth phases. He has worked in supply chain at SuperValu, Borders, Newell Rubbermaid and most notably Americold Logistics. There he served as CEO, taking the company public in January 2018. Boehler joined the

Nickey Gregory Co., a full line produce distributor that provides overnight deliveries throughout the Southeast, has long been a major player in Georgia’s produce scene, operating out of the Atlanta State Farmer’s Market.

“Our owner, Nickey Gregory, who started the company 24 years ago, grew up on the Atlanta Market and made it home for close to 300 employees,” said Andrew Scott, vice president of business development and marketing for the Nickey Gregory Co., which has a warehouse in Atlanta. “Being on the Atlanta State Farmer’s Market with its regional location and other wholesalers has its