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Great Ways to Create Special Sales Events During Your Slow Season.

Harvest Food Distributors recently teamed up with Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation and Denver Urban Gardens for a volunteer gardening day at Nome Park Community Garden. 

Here are 4 grilling safety tips to to keep your food safe and tasty!

Get your grill on with this juicy steak recipe from Beef It’s What’s for Dinner!

Gearing yourself up for a holiday sale can be easier said than done, but if you do not have a proper plan in place then your efforts may be in vain. The following tips can help you generate impulse sales in a fun, imaginative way. Break yourself out of the box and be unique and original. Don’t look at merchandising as a mundane task but as a way to be creative and inventive!

You can have the best seafood selection in town, but if you don’t display it properly, customers will pass it by. Use these tips and a little effort can go a long way toward creating attractive seafood displays that will help generate impulse sales and create a good impression of “freshness and quantity” that will benefit the entire store. Merchandising is more of an art than science so have fun and get creative!

With the merger between Harvest Food Distributors and Sherwood Food Distributors, two like-minded, family-run businesses partner to form a national network of distribution routes, warehouses, retailers and foodservice customers.

As U.S. consumers, especially millennials, look for hamburgers with more flavor and fresher beef, more restaurants are catering to the taste for “better burgers,” a market where one expert said sales could double in five years.

Last week, cold weather plagued much of the country and aggravated grocers as features for grilling cuts were lost on many who lacked the luxury of grilling outdoors. This week however, the nation finally appears to be thawing out. Luckily, features for steaks, burgers, ribs, chops and chicken are still plentiful—just in time for the sunshine.

With Easter landing in March this year, April now lacks a true retail holiday to spur grocery sales. There are, however, seasonal trends that tend to boost proteins at retail this month, and grocers are already taking advantage in their weekly circulars.