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Cooking Vegetables

Cooking Vegetables

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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Huntsinger Farms Inc

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper
Location HQ:
Eau Claire, 54701 Wisconsin
Specialties:
Horseradish
Cooking Vegetables:
Green Beans
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Hillcrest Orchard & Land Co

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper
Location HQ:
Gays Mills, 54631 Wisconsin
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
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Robert H Heath Farms Inc

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper
Location HQ:
Coloma, 54930 Wisconsin
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
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Hafs Road Orchard

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Business Type:
Grower, Retailer
Location HQ:
Genoa City, 53128 Wisconsin
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins
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Gallenberg Farms Inc

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper
Location HQ:
Antigo, 54409 Wisconsin
Cooking Vegetables:
Potatoes
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Erickson Orchards

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper, Retailer
Location HQ:
Bayfield, 54814 Wisconsin
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
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William Dankemyer Farm

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper
Location HQ:
Chili, 54420 Wisconsin
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Green Beans
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Church Farms

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper, Other
Location HQ:
Grand Marsh, 53936 Wisconsin
Cooking Vegetables:
Potatoes
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Sun Ridge Farm Inc

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper
Location HQ:
Hammond , 54015 Wisconsin
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Green Beans, Soybeans/Edamame
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Schabos Hillside Orchard

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Business Type:
Grower, Shipper
Location HQ:
Appleton, 54913 Wisconsin
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter








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