Category: Produce with Pamela

Twenty million new households have started ordering groceries online. How's it working out for them?

Whenever I’m feeling like some punishment, I wade into a moms group discussion on social media. It’s an eye-opening experience. This time of year, the windmill I’m usually chasing is the Dirty Dozen. Instead, it’s fresh produce safety during COVID-19.

In my reporting, I’ve advocated for plastic when it serves a function. And right now, that function is reassuring consumers that their food is safe.

While fresh produce dollars were still up 30% in the week ending March 22, the year-over-year gains were slightly less than the previous week's 33%.

CEO of the United Fresh Produce Association, outlines some of the drastic steps taken, and next steps forward for the fresh produce industry in this update from Washington, D.C.

The science just doesn’t support the outrageous levels of caution that Dr. VanWingen is taking, but that doesn’t seem to matter.

Consumers stocked up -- big time -- but Anne-Marie thinks the numbers will be even higher next week as consumers are ordered to stay at home to stop the spread of COVID-19.

I thought surely this year with all of the turmoil in grocery and retail, the Environmental Working Group would delay the release and consider the plight consumers are facing in stores right now.

Panic buying caused a 77% surge in meat sales, but there's one vegetable keeping up with that pace.

It’s clear the world has hit pause on most marketing and communications plans that were in place before the COVID-19 outbreak. But what do we do now?