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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Valley Girl Produce
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Fayetteville, 72704
Arkansas
Berries:
Strawberries
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Cooking Vegetables:
Peppers, Chili, Squash, Summer
Bud's Fresh-Cut Produce
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Dallas, 75215
Texas
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Onions, Bulb, Potatoes
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Carrots, Celery, Lettuce
Lodestone Diversified Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Broker,
Exporter,
Shipper,
Importer
Location HQ:
Pompano Beach, 33060
Florida
Citrus:
Limes
Tropical Fruit:
Avocados, Papayas, Pineapple
Cooking Vegetables:
Asparagus, Eggplant, Garlic, Onions, Bulb, Onions, Sweet, Squash, Summer
Alpine Fresh Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Importer
Location HQ:
Doral, 33178
Florida
Berries:
Blackberries, Blueberries, Raspberries
Tropical Fruit:
Mangoes, Pineapple
Cooking Vegetables:
Asparagus, Brussels Sprouts
Organic Produce:
Organic Asparagus, Organic Beans, Organic Blackberries
Fru-Veg Marketing Inc HQ
Overview
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(0)
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Business Type:
Shipper,
Importer
Location HQ:
Miami, 33172
Florida
Berries:
Blackberries, Blueberries, Raspberries
Citrus:
Lemons, Clementines / Mandarins / Tangerines
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Grapes
Stone Fruit:
Cherries, Nectarines, Peaches
Consolidated Farms Inc dba Crystal Valley Foods
Overview
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(5)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Importer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Miami, 33122
Florida
Tropical Fruit:
Carambola
Specialties:
Frisee, Baby Corn, Baby Lettuce
Cooking Vegetables:
White Asparagus, Green Beans, Haricots Verts, Italian Parsley, Snow Peas, Sugar Snap Peas
Pioneer Growers Cooperative HQ
Overview
(10)
(0)
(8)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler,
Processor
Location HQ:
Belle Glade, 33430
Florida
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Corn, Green Beans, Yellow Sweet Corn
Salad Vegetables:
Celery, Radishes
Specialties:
Chicory
Farm Direct Supply LLC
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Fort Lauderdale, 33309
Florida
Berries:
Blueberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Grapes, Pomegranates
Cooking Vegetables:
Asparagus, Brussels Sprouts, Peas
Corey Produce LLC
Overview
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(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Exporter,
Grower,
Shipper,
Importer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Bethel, 27812
North Carolina
Melons:
Seedless Red Watermelon, Seeded Red Watermelon, Mini Watermelon, Yellow-Flesh Watermelon, Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Orange-Flesh Sweet Potatoes, Yellow-Flesh Sweet Potatoes, White-Flesh Sweet Potatoes, Purple Sweet Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes
Alderman Farms Sales Corp
Overview
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(0)
(4)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Boynton Beach, 33472
Florida
Cooking Vegetables:
Herbs
Salad Vegetables:
Tomatoes
Organic Produce:
Organic Beets, Organic Cabbage, Organic Corn, Organic Cucumbers, Organic Eggplant, Organic Kale, Organic Peppers, Bell, Organic Squash
