Category: Produce with Pamela
Amazon to expand grocery concept to Seattle area
- Featured
What’s going to be the *it* factor that sways consumers to break with their usual routine and shop Amazon Fresh instead?
Shopper Insights: Consumers aren’t the only ones who buy with their eyes
- Produce with Pamela
How can retail shake-ups present opportunities for marketers?
Quick Look: Amazon Fresh, Naperville, IL
- Featured
This is the first location outside of California for the company, with all the tech bells and whistles you'd expect.
Five shopper behaviors the COVID-19 pandemic taught us
- Retail
To say it is hard to predict what will happen in the next 12 months is an understatement. With the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, retail settled into about a 10% increase in sales dollars over 2019, but that doesn’t come near to making up for the sales lost in the foodservice and institutional sectors.
Cosmic Crisp needs a little more fanfare, retail
- Produce with Pamela
Y’all. How are we supposed to convince consumers to buy something premium like this if we’re not even trying?
See Buc-ee’s, the world’s largest convenience store
- Featured
As we've been publishing the Produce Blueprints November/December feature on convenience stores, I can't help but be a Texan about my favorite convenience store: Buc-ee's.
Virtual events leave us starving for connection
- Produce with Pamela
“I’m dying a slow breakout session death,” is how one industry colleague put it, and I can't come up with a better way to describe my yearning for an in-person event.
Shopper Insights 2020: How demographics guide new product trials
- Produce with Pamela
It's not surprising that 64% have tried a pomegranate, and more than 50% have tried dates, papayas, and figs, but what about other items?
Pinkglow vs. Honeyglow pineapples – a review
- Produce with Pamela
Turns out it might have backfired to have an amazingly delicious, perfectly tart and ripe Honeyglow compared to the milder flavor of a Pinkglow, which has been described as "cotton candy-like."
Will the pandemic kill off more red delicious apples?
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Fresh holdings of red delicious, the punching bag of apple snobs (like myself), are down 33% compared to the 5-year average. The pandemic could push that number down further.