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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Coast Tropical
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Importer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Princeton, 33032
Florida
Citrus:
Limes
Tropical Fruit:
Avocados, Bananas, Mangoes, Papayas
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Cooking Vegetables:
Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter, Sweet Potatoes
Specialties:
Boniato
Coast Tropical
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
McAllen, 78501
Texas
Citrus:
Limes
Melons:
Cantaloupe, Watermelon
Tropical Fruit:
Avocados, Bananas, Coconuts, Mangoes, Papayas, Pineapple
Cooking Vegetables:
Celery Root
The Ruby Company
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Suwanee, 30024
Georgia
Cooking Vegetables:
Onions, Bulb, Potatoes
Oppy - Visalia
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Exporter,
Grower,
Shipper,
Importer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Visalia, 93291
California
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Grapes, Pears
Tropical Fruit:
Kiwifruit
Berries:
Blackberries, Blueberries, Cranberries, Raspberries, Gold Raspberries, Red Raspberries
Chapman Fruit Co Inc
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Broker,
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Immokalee, 34142
Florida
Cooking Vegetables:
Eggplant, Peppers, Chili, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter, Jalapeño Peppers, Zucchini Squash
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Cucumbers, Pickling Cucumbers
Oppy - Miami
Overview
(2)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Exporter,
Grower,
Shipper,
Importer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Miami, 33178
Florida
Berries:
Raspberries
Cooking Vegetables:
Asparagus
Taylor Boys Produce Inc
Overview
(3)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Shipper,
Wholesaler,
Government & Education
Location HQ:
Enoree, 29335
South Carolina
Berries:
Blackberries, Blueberries, Raspberries, Strawberries, Specialty Berries
Citrus:
Grapefruit, Lemons, Limes, Oranges, Clementines / Mandarins / Tangerines
Burch Equipment LLC
Overview
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(11)
(9)
Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Faison, 28341
North Carolina
Cooking Vegetables:
Eggplant, Greens, Kale, Potatoes, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter, Sweet Potatoes, Turnips
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Spinach
Produce Alliance LLC
Overview
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(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Broker,
Retailer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Nashville, 37228
Tennessee
Cooking Vegetables:
Onions, Bulb, Potatoes
Triple B Farms
Overview
(1)
(0)
(0)
Business Type:
Grower,
Retailer,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Monongahela, 15063
Pennsylvania
Berries:
Blackberries, Blueberries, Raspberries, Strawberries
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Corn, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
