Category: Produce Blueprints

All of the community relations initiatives contribute to Publix Super Markets, Inc. Lakeland, FL appearing regularly on lists of the best food retailers in the United States published by entities such as Newsweek.

When it comes to Publix Super Markets, Inc. Lakeland, FL, serving its surrounding communities, this includes each store’s workforce.

George W. Jenkins founded Publix Super Markets in 1930 in Winter Haven, FL. After more than 90 years, the chain, now headquartered in Lakeland, has close to 1,300 stores in seven states, with almost two-thirds of those located in its home state.

The messages that reach the farthest are conversational, often humorous, and first-person. In other words: real.

Today, Blue Book's Trading Assistance team provides collection and dispute resolution services tailored to the fresh produce industry, and helps you evaluate the creditworthiness of trading and transportation partners. In this article we discuss how Trading Assistance works and how it may help you.

Bagged salads and clamshells have opened new doors for the produce industry, but they also bring challenges the industry is going to have to face sooner, rather than later.

It’s hard to pin down the change from sterile, utilitarian supermarkets to the shopping adventures crafted by retailers today, but Tristan Simpson of Tristan Michele Marketing, says it was a noticeable change, and it truly did change the way people shop.

For decades, greenhouses brought us cucumbers, bell peppers, and tomatoes in areas and climates where it wasn’t possible before. This, too, was a gamechanger for the fresh produce industry.

Another innovation that changed the game, in the apple category at least, almost didn’t happen.

Tomatoes in the produce department in the late 1980s and 1990s were a little green in the gills. “Gas green,” to be exact.