Tag: produce blueprints

A small but increasingly mighty retailer to watch is Erewhon Market, which got its start in 1966 when founders Michio and Aveline Kushi, followers of a macrobiotic diet, opened a Boston food stall, then traveled to California.

Hy-Vee, Inc., founded in 1930 and owned by its 93,000 employees, stresses customer service, guided by the slogan, “A Helpful Smile in Every Aisle.”

Redner’s Markets, Inc. is a family- and employee-owned independent grocery retailer in the Mid-Atlantic region that celebrated its 50th year in business in 2020.

Southeastern Grocers, LLC operates stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi under the Winn-Dixie, Fresco y Más, and Harveys Supermarket banners with a reported total of 597 stores. In 2022, it remodeled 51 of its locations and opened 17 liquor stores.

Raley’s Supermarket, with its slogan, “Nourishing Our Communities,” has been focusing on nutrition and sustainability for years in western states, and these attributes have come to the forefront in its new O-N-E Market concept.

Rochester, NY-based Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. has 109 stores in eight states in the Northeast and along the East Coast and continues to expand southward. In October 2022, Wegmans opened a new location outside Wilmington, DE, marking its first location there.

Trade experience survey data reported on Stonehedge Produce Corporation, previously located in Atlanta, GA, never exceeded more than two trade reports.

The Problem: Buyer attempting to hold seller to last week’s offer. The Key Point: If not expressly defined, the seller’s offer is good for a “reasonable time.”

In past articles, we typically have studied companies with a more significant tenure and with a well-established footprint. However, there are some produce companies that don’t make it past their first year—as previously mentioned, approximately 20 percent of them.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly one in five U.S. businesses fail within the first year.