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The Giant Co. added four electric vehicles to its fleet serving the greater Philadelphia community. The electric vans will fulfill Giant Direct customer deliveries while reducing the company’s environmental footprint, safeguarding nearly 9,000 gallons of gas each year.
IFCO, a leading provider of Reusable Packaging Containers, delivered over 2 billion reusable packaging shipments of fresh produce, meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, bread and other fresh grocery products during 2022. With a circular economy business model based on share-reduce-reuse principles, IFCO enabled its supply chain customers to achieve substantial environmental savings.
When the FDA released the Final Rule on FSMA Section 204 in November, one of the biggest changes was the addition of the requirement to capture and record Critical Tracking Events or CTE’s. The FDA defines a “Critical Tracking Event to mean an event in the supply chain of a food involving the harvesting, cooling (before initial packing), initial packing of a RAC other than a food obtained from a fishing vessel... shipping, receiving or transformation of the food.”
Americans believe that grocery retailers are earning a 35.2 percent net profit margin, more than 10 times higher than grocers’ actual net profit margin average of 2.5 percent, and that food-at-home inflation is 24.3 percent, double the annual rate reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to the latest dunnhumby Consumer Trends Tracker. The CTT is part of the dunnhumby Quarterly, a strategic market analysis of key retail themes, with the third edition being focused on navigating uncertainty.
While Seeded Produce provides a full complement of Mexican produce, its melon crops are a shining star of the lineup. “Our line of melons consists of honeydews, cantaloupes, Hami melons, mini-watermelons and seedless watermelons, which are available from October through May, depending on the variety,” said Omar Losolla, managing member of Seeded Produce, based in Nogales, AZ. Losolla said an abundance of rain during the fall resulted in fruit that was larger in size than normal, owing to the excess nitrogen in the soil.