Cooking Vegetables
Varieties
Sales Strategies
- Many consumers only think about vegetables in terms of side dishes, but cooking vegetables make a tasty addition to many entrees. Offer recipes for stuffed peppers, stuffed potatoes and stir fries.
- Root vegetables have recently been lauded for their health benefits and their versatility in being a carb replacement. Play on those strengths in signage and sales. You can also cross-merchandise them with soup fixings.
- Grilling season offers up a fresh opportunity to promote cooking vegetables as many of these veggies go great on the grill. Cross-promote potatoes, peppers, artichokes and onions with grilling utensils, spices and rubs.
- Samples can help familiarize consumers with lesser-known vegetables.
- Include cooking vegetables in all of your holiday promotions. Asparagus is a favorite around Easter, and broccoli and green beans are a popular side dish for Christmas or Thanksgiving. Don’t forget pumpkins, sweet potatoes and cranberries for those fall holidays. Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are a great time to promote a mix of vegetables that consumers can grill.
- Let your consumers hunt for their own great pumpkin in a pumpkin patch them while using pumpkins to boost the sales of other fall vegetables, like squash.
- During the winter, create a soup vegetable display. Include leeks, celery, potatoes root vegetables and fresh herbs.
Dynamic Displays
- The cooking vegetable category is best displayed in small groupings of similar vegetables. Potatoes and onions are a natural pairing while broccoli, green beans, asparagus and artichokes often find themselves grouped together as they can be served as a stand-alone side dish. Squash, turnips and rutabagas make an eye-catching display when grouped together.
- There is some cross-over with salad vegetables, so decide where those cross-over vegetables work best in your store. Tomatoes and peppers may move better when grouped with the salad vegetables.
- Don’t let your greens get lost in your lettuce display. Give them some space and offer up recipes and cooking tips to get consumers thinking about the many uses of greens.
- Include garlic in your tomato and herb displays to get it moving along with these popular items.
Perfect Pricing
- Because of the variety available within the category, combination pricing promotions are difficult for this category.
- Most vegetables in this category can be priced by the pound or by the piece, whichever works best for the target consumer base.
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Eli Gonzalez Distributors Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Pharr, 78577
Texas
Cooking Vegetables:
Herbs, Onions, Bulb
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Tomatoes
Zukovich’s Farm Market
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Retailer
Location HQ:
Tamaqua, 18252
Pennsylvania
Berries:
Blueberries
Melons:
Cantaloupe
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Corn, Eggplant, Garlic, Herbs, Onions, Bulb, Pumpkins
Linares Produce Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Dayton, 37321
Tennessee
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Tomatoes
Cooking Vegetables:
Squash, Summer, Cucuzzo Squash, Yellow Crookneck Squash, Yellow Straightneck Squash, Zucchini Squash, 8 Ball Squash, Squash, Winter, Green Acorn Squash
White Oak Nursery
Overview
(1)
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Business Type:
Grower,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Strasburg, 17579
Pennsylvania
Berries:
Strawberries
Melons:
Cantaloupe
Cooking Vegetables:
Asparagus, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Corn, Eggplant, Garlic, Greens
Yellow Dog Farms
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Evans City, 16033
Pennsylvania
Cooking Vegetables:
Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Eggplant, Garlic, Onions, Bulb, Pumpkins, Squash, Winter
Salad Vegetables:
Broccoli, Carrots, Tomatoes
Vermes LLC
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Pharr, 78577
Texas
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Chinese Long Eggplant, Thai Eggplant, Habanero Peppers, Kabocha Squash
Specialties:
Bitter Melon, Jackfruit
Agrotrade Corporation Canada
Overview
(1)
(0)
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Business Type:
Importer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Calgary, T3K 4Z8
Alberta
Tropical Fruit:
Coconuts
Specialties:
Cassava, Taro Root, Yam, Dried Beans
Stone Fruit:
Black Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Yellow-Flesh Sweet Potatoes, White-Flesh Sweet Potatoes
JA Blurr Farms
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Bronx, 10470
New York
Melons:
Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Watermelon
Stone Fruit:
Nectarines, Peaches, Plums
Tropical Fruit:
Avocados, Bananas, Coconuts, Kiwifruit
Sweet Corn Coop Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Iron City, 39859
Georgia
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn
Sunny Slope Farms
Overview
(1)
(0)
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Business Type:
Grower,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Garrett, 15542
Pennsylvania
Berries:
Strawberries
Cooking Vegetables:
Garlic, Onions, Bulb, Pumpkins, Zucchini Squash
Salad Vegetables:
Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Greenhouse/Hydroponic Tomatoes
