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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La Finca Inc
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Willow River, 55795-3099
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Greens, Herbs, Potatoes, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Cucumbers, Lettuce, Tomatoes
Northwood Organic Produce
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Saint Paul, 55110-4606
Minnesota
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Grapes
Cooking Vegetables:
Asparagus, Beans, Beets, Cabbage, Herbs, Kale, Rutabagas
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Sapsucker Farms
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Mora, 55051-6924
Minnesota
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Grapes, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Cherries, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Artichokes, Beans, Beets, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage
Groche Organic Farms Llc
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Little Suamico, 54141-9026
Wisconsin
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins
Hay River Pumpkin Seed Oil
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Prairie Farm, 00005-4762
Wisconsin
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins
Plainview Organics
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Harmony, 55939-6732
Minnesota
Berries:
Strawberries
Cooking Vegetables:
Beets, Herbs, Onions, Bulb, Potatoes
Salad Vegetables:
Radishes, Tomatoes
Specialties:
Rhubarb
Wedge Table
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Minneapolis, 55404-3449
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Kale
Salad Vegetables:
Broccoli
Hilltop View Farm
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Harmony, 55939-6708
Minnesota
Berries:
Strawberries
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Herbs, Onions, Bulb, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Elwell Agroecology Farm / Univ Of Mn Sw Research
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Lamberton, 56152-1326
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Beets, Brussels Sprouts, Cauliflower, Potatoes
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Broccoli, Cucumbers, Tomatoes
