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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2M Sales LLC
Overview
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Business Type:
Broker,
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Yuma, 85365-3915
Arizona
Melons:
Cantaloupe, Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Napa Cabbage
Salad Vegetables:
Broccoli, Carrots, Onions, Green, Radishes
Specialties:
Bok Choy
All Star Produce Co
Overview
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Business Type:
Broker
Location HQ:
McAllen, 78501
Texas
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Onions, Bulb
Hermo Produce
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Chula Vista, 91913
California
Cooking Vegetables:
Beets, Herbs, Peppers, Chili, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter, Green Beans, Red Beets, Golden Beets, Chioggia Beets
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Our Foods Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler,
Packaging
Location HQ:
San Diego, 92110
California
Cooking Vegetables:
Mushrooms
Riverside Potato Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Merrill, 97633
Oregon
Cooking Vegetables:
Potatoes
Ramos Produce Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Houston, 77022
Texas
Citrus:
Grapefruit, Oranges
Melons:
Watermelon
Tropical Fruit:
Mangoes
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Peppers, Chili, Jalapeño Peppers
Metzler Systems Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Broker,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Woodbury, 08096
New Jersey
Cooking Vegetables:
Potatoes
A-A1 Foodservice
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Austin, 78744
Texas
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage
Salad Vegetables:
Cucumbers, Lettuce, Tomatoes
Tex Mex Produce Co
Overview
(0)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Rio Grande City, 78582
Texas
Melons:
Cantaloupe, Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Onions, Bulb, Onions, Sweet, Jalapeño Peppers
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Pickling Cucumbers
Astarte Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Hadley, 01035-9501
Massachusetts
Cooking Vegetables:
Herbs
