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Avocados from Peru is teaming up this season with the World Champion Los Angeles Rams as the team’s official avocado and superfood. Through Oct. 24 fans will have an opportunity to win the Avo-Rams custom electric vehicle, a trip to the iconic Machu Picchu in Peru and a VIP Rams game-day experience. Fans will be able to enter the Avo-Rams EV Sweepstakes by visiting therams.com/avocados.

FiveStar Gourmet Foods accelerated its substantial growth trajectory with expanded reach by partnering with Kroger to offer Simply Fresh Salads across the US., including Ralphs stores on the West Coast. Kroger recently reported strong second quarter earnings, a 5.8 percent sales increase excluding fuel compared to the same period last year, driven by its Leading with Fresh strategy, which continues to position the retailer as a leader in fresh.

Shuman Farms has always led the produce industry in important initiatives such as food safety, cause-marketing, brand advocacy, and more. At this year’s Southeast Produce Council’s Southern Innovations, the team will discuss the meaningful sustainability priorities they are currently focusing on.

The Kroger Co. opened a new spoke in Birmingham, AL. Serving as a last-mile cross-dock location, the new spoke will operate as a seamless extension of the regional fulfillment center in Atlanta, making Kroger Delivery available to more customers in the greater Birmingham area.

With an avocado program that stretches from the seed to fork, Westfalia Fruit Marketing is determined to bring avocados to every corner of the world.

Instacart unveiled Connected Stores, a bundle of six new Instacart Platform technologies that layer on top of existing offerings, helping grocers bring together the best of online ordering and in-store shopping for consumers. Connected Stores creates a unified, personalized experience for customers by enabling them to move seamlessly between a retailer’s app or website and its physical, in-store experience. Together, Instacart and Good Food Holdings will open the first Instacart Platform-power...

This fall, Healthy Family Project is celebrating 20 years of innovative cause marketing programs and thought leadership in the health and nutrition space. In the 20-year time frame the company, which was founded as Produce for Kids, has partnered with more than 100 better-for-you brands and 30 retailers while continuing to evolve with the health and nutrition needs of families.

Naturipe, a leading global producer of nutritious fresh berries for more than 100 years, will launch a new line of frozen fruit products, available Oct. 17 in select retailers across the mid and Northeast.

C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. is looking to build a new operations platform on Google Cloud to reduce the company’s carbon footprint and enhance the customer experience.

Inflation continues to impact how consumers spend their hard-earned dollars, particularly in the supermarket. Nowhere has the impact been more significant than in the produce aisle. Fresh common fruit categories had the largest monthly price jump in August, rising 5.3 percent compared to the end of July, according to the August 2022 Price Check: Tracking Retail Food and Beverage Inflation, from the recently merged Information Resources Inc. and the NPD Group