Category: Produce with Pamela

Every time I’m promised sweeping change, I see some new lighting and maybe a different color of RPC, and not a lot of follow-through in the in-store execution. Here are five things I'd like to see in Walmart's new Produce 2.0.

The game of my childhood is coming back, and I have some suggestions for producers to get more fresh produce into the new Supermarket Sweep.

With United Fresh's BrandStorm coming here in February, I took the opportunity to introduce Mary Coppola, vice president of marketing and communications, to the quirkier side of Austin

Now that I’ve shown you how artichokes are grown and harvested, let’s get to the real mystery: what do you do with them?

I can remember the first time I saw someone cook an artichoke. I was in my sophomore year at the University of Missouri and my experience with them up until then had been limited to canned and jarred artichoke hearts in salads. 

In a story that’s a slippery slope to into bad puns, produce clerks at three King County, WA, Safeway stores got the surprise of a lifetime, finding nearly $1.4 million in cocaine stashed in banana boxes.

Somebody tell Trader Joe’s that Teeny Tiny Avocados are out and Ridiculous Huge fruit is in.

It was only a matter of time before we saw another story of another consumer who finds a frog in their packaged salad.

While it does serve a purpose for many items in the produce department, there are many who'd like to see a plastic-free produce department.  Is it possible? 

Kiwifruit was virtually unknown in the United States until Los Alamitos, CA-based Frieda’s Specialty Produce founder Frieda Rapoport Caplan brought it to the U.S. in the 1960s.