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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Holfacker's Hillside Orchard
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Appleton, 54913
Wisconsin
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Ziegler Olsen Farms Inc
Overview
(1)
(0)
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Business Type:
Grower,
Retailer
Location HQ:
Newberg, 97132
Oregon
Stone Fruit:
Cherries, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins
Nuts:
Walnuts
Pollock & Son Inc
Overview
(2)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Hermiston, 97838
Oregon
Melons:
Watermelon
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Tomatoes
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Baggenstos Farms Inc
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Sherwood, 97140
Oregon
Berries:
Strawberries
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Cauliflower, Corn, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Broccoli
Cascade Specialties Inc
Overview
(5)
(0)
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Business Type:
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Boardman, 97818
Oregon
Cooking Vegetables:
Garlic, Onions, Bulb
Fernandez Enrique Alonso
Overview
(2)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Broker,
Exporter,
Grower,
Importer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Torreòn, 27019
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Cauliflower, Onions, Bulb, Peppers, Chili, Jalapeño Peppers, Zucchini Squash
Salad Vegetables:
Broccoli, Carrots, Cucumbers, Tomatoes
Zimbelman Farms
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Quincy, 98848
Washington
Melons:
Cantaloupe, Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn
Engfer Farms
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Orting, 98360
Washington
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Corn, Potatoes, Green Beans
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Broccoli, Tomatoes
Paragon Produce
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Exporter,
Importer
Location HQ:
Canning Vale, WA 6155
Citrus:
Lemons, Limes, Oranges, Clementines / Mandarins / Tangerines
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples
Stone Fruit:
Apricots, Cherries, Nectarines
Tropical Fruit:
Kiwifruit
Cooking Vegetables:
Asparagus
Prairie Star Ranch Inc
Overview
(2)
(0)
(1)
Business Type:
Broker,
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Plover, 54467
Wisconsin
Cooking Vegetables:
Potatoes
