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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Leon's Produce
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Porterville, 93257
California
Melons:
Cantaloupe
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage
Salad Vegetables:
Lettuce
Miles Produce Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Los Angeles, 90021
California
Cooking Vegetables:
Eggplant
Specialties:
Bitter Melon
Olsen Ag Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Pasco, 99302
Washington
Cooking Vegetables:
Potatoes
Tuten Farming
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Madison, 32340
Florida
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Onions, Bulb, Potatoes, Green Beans
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Tomatoes
Jirstrek Fruits Ltd
Overview
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Business Type:
Importer,
Retailer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Saint-Laurent, H4N 1J1
Quebec
Citrus:
Lemons, Oranges
Deciduous Fruit:
Asian Pears, Figs, Pomegranates
Tropical Fruit:
Avocados, Mangoes, Papayas
Cooking Vegetables:
Asparagus, Garlic
Tucker Farms/Ricky & Clay Tucker
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Enigma, 31749
Georgia
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Greens
Dean Tucker Farms Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Broker,
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Punta Gorda, 33950
Florida
Melons:
Cantaloupe, Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins
Liberty Foods Llc Dba Bouchey Potatoes
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Wapato, 98951-9564
Washington
Cooking Vegetables:
Potatoes
Agrolink Brazil
Overview
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Business Type:
Exporter,
Grower
Location HQ:
Campinas, 13010-050
Cooking Vegetables:
Herbs, Chives, Sage, Thyme, Bay Leaves, Basil, Rosemary, Dill, Mint, Marjoram
Sweet Tropical Organics
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Keaau, 96749-8228
Hawaii
Citrus:
Lemons, Limes
Tropical Fruit:
Avocados, Bananas, Mangoes, Pineapple
Cooking Vegetables:
Herbs, Pumpkins, Sweet Potatoes
Specialties:
Breadfruit
