For the 2020-21 Northwest pear season, USA Pears is once again going to celebrate National Pizza Month with its pear pizza campaign. This year marks the second time the organization has executed the campaign, which includes a consumer contest on social media, working with restaurants around the United States to highlight their own pear pizza offerings, influencers and bloggers creating and sharing their pear pizza recipes, and retailers posting pear pizza ideas for their shoppers.

With the #pearpizza campaign, USA Pears is sending the message to consumers that the natural sweetness and soft

Pop Up Grocer, the world’s first-ever traveling pop-up grocery store, will bring its roster of innovative consumer brands to New York this fall for a month-long residency in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Opening Oct. 2 through Nov. 1, Pop Up Grocer will showcase a select group of qualifying brands, vetted by founder Emily Schildt and the Pop Up Grocer team, including Yes! Apples , a women-owned and New York-grown apple brand that is sweetening life one apple.

“Everything we do at Yes! Apples — from the growers we partner with to the land we grow on — is driven by our commitment to grow the

Mastronardi Produce is igniting the pepper category again with a hot new flavor set to hit store shelves in early 2021. Yowzers!, a red chili pepper that is tipping the SUNSET scales on heat, joins the lineup of unique and flavorful SUNSET pepper products including Shazam! shishito pepper and Kaboom! black jalapenos.

“For years, the pepper category remained stagnant without much in the way of offerings outside of standard Bell peppers and jalapenos,” said Peppe Bonfiglio, vice president of sales at Mastronardi Produce. “We saw the need to innovate and heat things up, so we started

Three years after introducing Simbe Robotics’ autonomous robot Tally to select stores to enhance inventory management, Schnuck Markets Inc.  is launching the technology in an additional 46 stores, leveraging Tally’s real-time data to improve the shopping experiences in 62 locations.

“The amount of critical data and valuable insights that Tally continues to bring us from a select number of stores is immeasurable,” said Schnucks Vice President of IT Infrastructure and Development Dave Steck. “By expanding our partnership with Simbe and introducing Tally to more than half our stores, we will

Re Fresh, launched in August by produce industry veterans Doug Fisher and Joe Cimino to reimagine the produce procurement experience, has expanded its team by hiring seven accomplished produce industry professionals.

"Re Fresh was founded with a philosophy to focus on customer service, relationship building and a deep understanding of our customers’ needs. This is accomplished by assembling the right people augmented by technology to carry out our vision," said Cimino. "With these hires, everything is in place to fulfill these goals."

Jamie Corn, Janette Gomez and Joey Eubanks join the team

Stemilt and its local healthcare provider, Confluence Health, are celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Stemilt Family Clinic. Stemilt partners with Confluence Health to offer Stemilt employees, their spouses, and dependents an on-site, a no cost healthcare clinic for all primary care needs and pharmacy services. Stemilt President West Mathison sees the five-year mark as a significant milestone for the company and a great resource for Stemilt employees.

“Stemilt exists to cultivate people and delight consumers with our world famous fruit. Putting our health first via the Stemilt Family