As part of its omnichannel growth, The Giant Co. and Instacart launched Giant Instant Delivery and Martin’s Instant Delivery, providing customers with delivery chainwide. With convenience as one of the most popular categories on Instacart, Giant Instant Delivery provides customers with fresh groceries, convenience items, and household essentials from early morning to late at night in as fast as 30 minutes.

“While no two families’ grocery experiences are alike, the one thing so many of our families have in common is that their lives are busier than ever. Sometimes, they just can’t make it to

The Texas International Produce Association is calling on industry members to participate in the third annual Viva Fresh Clean Eating Challenge. The 2020 Viva Fresh Clean Eating challenge captured the attention of the produce industry leading into this past year’s long-awaited Viva Fresh Expo as 40 participants challenged themselves to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into their daily routines.

Since the launch of the challenge in 2019, participating members have been involved in the challenge during different phases of the pandemic, making it even more impressive that they have

Albertsons Cos. announced a new partnership with Firework, a short-form video platform designed to bring a shoppable, livestream video experience to any website. The food and drug giant is the first U.S. grocer to utilize the Firework platform to transform its digital offerings, bringing online shoppers a community-oriented experience led by shoppable, short-form and livestream video.

"This partnership is an important step in Albertsons Companies digital transformation journey to redefine customer engagement in the grocery retail space. This isn't just about creating new ways to feature our

The Produce for Better Health Foundation celebrated another successful National Fruits and Veggies month with an intimate virtual influencer event geared toward inspiring consumers to eat more fruits and vegetables.

The two-day virtual event, held Sept. 28-29, kicked off with a session entitled “Have A Plant Nation: Insights, Ideas & Inspiration to Put More Plants on the Plate.” The session was hosted by PBH President and CEO Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak and focused on recent PBH State of the Plate research, which indicates that fruit and vegetable consumption habits continue to erode.

While there

Despite an international pandemic, Farmer Mark’s obsession with the Big Idaho Potato Truck is stronger than ever as evidenced in the Idaho Potato Commission’s newest national television commercial, aptly named “Hobbies.” The IPC premiered its 12th commercial featuring the Big Idaho Potato Truck and Farmer Mark during ESPN’s live broadcast of Boise State University’s football season opener against the University of Central Florida on Thursday, Sept. 2.

“Debuting the commercial during BSU’s first game is now a tradition,” said Frank Muir, president and CEO of IPC. “As a longtime sponsor of

Over the past 18 months, society has endured unprecedented health, social and economic turmoil simultaneously on a global scale. The Mexican organic banana industry, through tremendous effort, has successfully produced and delivered the highest quality fruit possible. In the last 12 months, it has delivered more than 7 million boxes of organic bananas to the U.S. market. Mexico recently became the second-largest source of organic bananas to America, second only to Ecuador. At this rate of growth, Mexico may well become the largest source of organic bananas to the U.S. market in the coming