Category: Produce Blueprints

While most tomatoes are grown traditionally in an open field, greenhouse tomatoes are an ever-expanding portion of the market, due to the success of these high-tech, high-density operations, particularly in Mexico and Canada.

Love apple? Wolf peach? Call it what you may, the tomato is one of the world’s most popular produce items whether it’s eaten raw, cooked, or juiced.

The age-old joke about the couple who can’t decide where to eat is magnified when it comes to meal planning at home. Add an alarming lack of either time or skill in the kitchen, and we’ve got a recipe for food fatigue and a nutritional disaster.

Amazon’s success has been a double-edged sword for the online giant, as the company has faced scathing criticism over the years.

Amazon is building its internal distribution capabilities, leasing a 1.1-million-square-foot distribution center in Orlando for shelf-stable, refrigerated, and frozen foods. Industry watchers say this shows its commitment to the grocery category and foreshadows more expansion for Amazon Fresh.

Technology is driving many retailers’ strategies to position themselves for the grocery industry of the future—from cashierless to drones to driverless trucks—and Amazon has been a technology-forward company from the beginning.

When it comes to Amazon and its segue into the grocery industry, there’s plenty of good, a few instances of bad, and an occasional bit of ugly.

Amazon has more than two dozen small-format convenience stores in a handful of cities.

Amazon’s initial foray for its own branded grocery, Amazon Fresh, was an online-only venture. To expand further, it needed credibility.

Expert consensus is that many consumers will continue to shop online for groceries in the long term.