Category: Produce with Pamela

It’s that time of year again. It’s time for me to get up on my soapbox and remind you that people have died from eating candied apples stored at room temperature.

Here I thought Jungle Jim's International Market in Cincinnati was bonkers (and I mean that in the best way possible). Stew Leonard's has singing bananas. And singing avocados. And singing cows.

The thing about the Better Break bowl is that it makes me think about how consumer attitudes toward this "better for you" substitution have changed over the past five or six years. It used to be that these swaps were seen as a sacrifice. Now they're a feature. 

H-E-B's Central Market is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and the tributes are making me all sentimental, for a different reason. 

NASHVILLE—What if Amazon Go actually had a full convenience store, with food that people wanted to buy?

I had a chance to chat with Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics, the author of the Power of Produce report for the Food Marketing Institute and the Southeast Produce Council ahead of her talk at Southern Innovations in Nashville. 

I see a lot of trade shows in this business, so I like to think it takes a lot to get my attention when it comes to new product innovations. At the Southeast Produce Council’s Southern Innovations Expo on Sept. 13, I found seven things that really jumped out at me.

It might surprise you— considering they’re one of the most prolific retailers in the U.S.—but I don’t get around to too many Kroger stores.

Pamela's doing Guerilla store tours in Nashville and stopped by Publix. This offers expanded meal kits and meal prep ingredients, as well as an extensive selection of organics.

There’s nothing like touring grocery stores with a local.