It’s a business owner’s worst nightmare: To spend a lifetime building a brand with a sterling reputation, only to have it ruined in an instant.

Fresh Summit is fast approaching. In the hustle to arrange booth plans, meetings and travel, it’s easy to lose sight of what you want to accomplish. Fresh Summit is about more than closing a deal.

Aldi is a company that I have always been fascinated by; with over 1,800 locations in 35 states, it has a revenue projection by retail analysts just north of $11 billion in 2018, yet they largely fly under the radar.

On Sept. 17 Amazon Go opened its first location in Chicago.

We all have wondered how our lives would have been different if we had made one small, or not so small, change along the way.

If a display has only the best you have to offer, customers have a funny way of reacting — they open bags and fill them with fresh produce.

I’m old enough to remember when 7-11 stores were only open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

This is the time of year when many fresh produce commodity associations, boards, groups take a time out, however brief.

It’s not news that Americans are woefully behind on their produce consumption.

Can a voluntary checkoff program work?