Category: Produce with Pamela

I just wanted someone to take the thinking away from me, but also not feed my family burgers, fried chicken, or pizza – their usual choices for takeout.

I decided to see what my boys thought of the peaches, plums, and apricots. Kids being kids, they had mixed reviews and can't be scripted.

There's no rustle of booths breaking down in a virtual trade show. In fact, there's more value to be had from a platform like United Fresh Live.

Initial registration put attendance for the inaugural United Fresh Live convention June 15-19 at around 8,000, but as soon as the show hit the airwaves, more people started to register.

It's time to remind consumers that fresh produce has a better shelf life than people give it credit for.

Dierbergs Markets in Missouri made the national news for its clever repurposing of its self-serve salad bars with little bottles of liquor, but it does bring up a dark spot in retail amid the COVID-19 crisis: the fate of salad bars in the long run.

Pamela wonders about the other elephant in the room that could affect fresh produce sales at retail -- will consumers trust farmers markets during COVID-19?

For six months out of the year, basically from April to November, it's springtime in the strawberry fields.

The back-and-forth of Amazon Prime grocery and Amazon Fresh contraction and expansion over the past three years has been a puzzler for me. Amazon is an e-commerce company. They bought a grocery store. Why was this not a better marriage?

We’ve all got nowhere to go. Might as well eat our oranges in the shower. It’s a fun change of pace when days are blending together.