Pumping up or building massive produce displays is not uncommon during the holidays.

“Ugh! This Saturday night I have inventory.”

As one year closes and another begins, it is a good time to take stock of everything that has happened and look forward to plan and predict what the future might hold.

It is a fabulous feeling to have a story to share, and Rouses Markets delivered that for its shoppers Dec. 4 with a promotion centered around the world’s largest avocado display at its store on Tchoupitoulas Street.

Over the past decade, there have been significant advancements to create a more proactive, preventative approach to food safety under the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The produce department of tomorrow may not be one.

A simple question for retailers as we near the end of November: Do you know what your shoppers are doing for the holidays this year?

The future food choices of consumers are difficult enough to predict based on their past behavior.

I’m decidedly pro-sprouts. I’ve just never seen them on the Thanksgiving table.

Everyone has a job, and yet ... produce people sometimes spend too much time in a checkstand.