Save Mart launched an on-demand grocery delivery service to its guests at the flagship store in Modesto, CA, in partnership with leading robot delivery company Starship Technologies. Marking the one-year anniversary of its opening in October, Save Mart’s flagship store serves as an innovation lab and is the first grocery store in the U.S. to partner with Starship Technologies. Based in San Francisco and a leader in the field, Starship Technologies recently passed the 500,000 autonomous deliveries milestone.

The robots, each of which can carry up to 20 pounds of groceries — the equivalent of

Growers Express LLC announced that Kirk Wagner is promoted to chief operating officer.   

Wagner serves as a member of the executive team, reporting to the board of directors, and working closely with President Tom Byrne and CEO Mark Dendle to set company performance goals, develop and implement strategies, procedures, and business plans.  Wagner continues to serve as the company’s general counsel, a position he has held since joining the company in 2011.  

“With over 20 years of working with food industry suppliers, manufacturers and customers up and down the fresh and frozen supply chain

Fox Packaging, an industry leader in flexible packaging innovation, has added an additional UTECO printing press to its dedicated facility.

“Expanding our manufacturing capacity is essential to meet growing customer demand and it also presents Fox Packaging with an opportunity to make fast turnaround on large print runs,” said Lucas Fox, director of operations for Fox Packaging.

The UTECO press is a modern equipment solution that executes unmatchable print quality, extremely fast job changes, and can effortlessly run up to 10 colors, with four-color process and Pantone colors.

Fox shared

At Snake River Produce, in Nyssa, OR, both General Manager Kay Riley and Transportation Manager/Sales-Marketing Assistant Tiffany Cruickshank said in September they were glad to see steady demand for early onions out of Idaho-E. Oregon’s Treasure Valley.

“I’m pretty pleased,” Riley commented mid-month, and Cruickshank said she was likewise happy and “pleasantly surprised.”

Markets were stronger than anticipated in the wake of COVID-19’s shutdown/slowdown of foodservice.

“Our crop was planted before the lockdown,” Cruickshank said. “Now we’re coming in with a normal crop and supplies.” The

For more than a century, United Fresh has served as a conduit in the produce industry, bringing businesses across the full produce supply chain together to build strategic partnerships and create long-term initiatives to solve unique business challenges. One such partnership flourished not in the field, but rather, in the halls of Cornell University.

As authorities on produce education, United Fresh and Cornell University are uniquely positioned to develop leaders. United Fresh first connected its deep roots in fresh fruit and vegetables with the vines of the esteemed Ivy League institution

Noting an early and smooth start-up after favorable growing conditions, Baker & Murakami Produce COO Cameron Skeen said the 2020 onion shipping season has also been greeted with good supplies as well as demand.

The Ontario, OR-based grower-shipper, one of the biggest in the nation, is also seeing good quality in all three colors, he added.

“Our start-up has been very normal and smooth with steady demand and consistent supplies,” Skeen said in mid-September. “We were able to start our season a week earlier this year due to variety selection and some help with Mother Nature.”

The company’s