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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Finesse Mills Llc
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Watsonville, 95076-4524
California
Cooking Vegetables:
Herbs, Mushrooms
Poz Trading Dba Paul J Pozzi
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Petaluma, 94953-0357
California
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Onions, Bulb
Rancho Los Joseses S. De R.L. De C.V.
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Calexico, 92232-0443
California
Cooking Vegetables:
Garlic
Packwood Farms Dba Ken Packwood & Elaine Packwood
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Delhi, 95315-9732
California
Cooking Vegetables:
Herbs
Nuts:
Almonds
Smythphillips Company
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Saint Johns, 48879
Michigan
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Peaches, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Salad Vegetables:
Tomatoes
Lievens Brothers Farms Inc
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Nursery/Florist
Location HQ:
Petersburg, 49270
Michigan
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins
Salad Vegetables:
Tomatoes
Studebaker Farm
Overview
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(0)
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Fredericksburg, 78624
Texas
Berries:
Strawberries
Melons:
Watermelon
Stone Fruit:
Apricots, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Salad Vegetables:
Tomatoes
Apple Blossom Orchard
Overview
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(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Midland, 48642
Michigan
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Salad Vegetables:
Tomatoes
Cook Farms
Overview
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(0)
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Okemos, 48864
Michigan
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter, Green Beans
Salad Vegetables:
Tomatoes
Walnut Lane Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Traverse City, 49696
Michigan
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples
Stone Fruit:
Cherries
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Pumpkins
Salad Vegetables:
Tomatoes
