It’s never too early to start setting up your stone fruit display for the summer months ahead. The early fruit is already starting to arrive in the stores and will increase in volume as we move into June.

Build growth and meet budgeted goals from the sales volume all stone fruit can generate. Be sales and profit minded, enthusiastic and aggressive with your displays.

Use creative and unique skills to draw your shoppers over to those displays. The best way to do that is to set up all the stone fruit items together in one location. Produce end caps are usually the ideal spot for a nice

SpartanNash will salute military and disaster relief heroes through its annual SpartanNash Foundation in-store fundraiser, running through June 4. As part of the company's commitment to support heroes from the military and surrounding communities, this year's fundraiser will benefit Honor and Remember, Operation Homefront and Convoy of Hope.

Store guests who visit any participating SpartanNash-owned retail stores including Family Fare, Martin's Super Markets, D&W Fresh Market, Forest Hills Foods and fuel centers during the fundraiser can choose to donate $1, $5 or $10 at checkout or round up

BuzzFeed Inc. launched “Botatouille,” an AI-powered culinary companion designed by Tasty to revolutionize the cooking, meal prep and shopping experience for Tasty's global community. In the Tasty app, users can have a real-time conversation with “Botatouille,” a chatbot, by asking cooking questions like: what recipes can I make with the ingredients in my fridge?; how long do you cook salmon?; and how do you clean cast iron?

Botatouille, Tasty’s AI sous chef, marks the first AI utility product developed by Tasty and showcases the power of artificial intelligence for good. From searching for

Technology is great — until it isn’t. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported that the movement toward high-tech indoor farming has — to put it mildly — slowed. Perhaps with good reason.

“Investors poured billions of dollars into companies such as AppHarvest and Local Bounti that grow lettuce, tomatoes and other crops in indoor farms that use advanced technology such as sensors and robots to offset weather-related risks, use less water and produce more consistent crops," WSJ reported. "Shares of the two companies are down more than 95 percent since they went public in 2021, and

The U.S. Department of Agriculture imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. These sanctions include suspending the businesses’ PACA licenses and barring the principal operators of the businesses from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.

The following businesses and individuals are currently restricted from operating in the produce industry:

• Monarca Natural Foods

The latest survey of grocery shoppers by FMI – The Food Industry Association for its U.S. Grocery Shopping Trends 2023 series, reveals that the meaning of “good value” is becoming more complex as consumers navigate grocery aisles.

The analysis revealed several common considerations for how shoppers think about value, both for the food and beverages they buy and the stores and channels they choose to shop, as inflation, while slowly edging downward in April, persists. Emerging dimensions of value regarding quality, relevance, experience and convenience are bucking the long-held definition of