In the grocery retail landscape, where shoppers are bombarded with choices, health is proving to be the ultimate differentiator. The rise of the food as medicine movement presents an incredible opportunity for produce departments to move from transactional spaces to transformative ones, places where shoppers can find both nourishment and knowledge.

Tropical activity continues in the Eastern Pacific as Hurricane Flossie weakens and moves offshore near southern Baja over the next few days. Another system is likely to develop into a tropical depression near southwestern Mexico next week. Meanwhile in the Gulf of Mexico another tropical system is anticipated to form off the gulf coast of Florida over the weekend into early next.

Little Leaf Farms has expanded with a new campus in Tennessee. The new site — Little Leaf Farms' third overall — will dramatically expand the brand's production footprint and reinforce its leadership in the fast-growing controlled environment agriculture category.

Big Y’s Local Vendor Discovery Tour is now under way for its upcoming supermarket in Westborough, MA, and the retailer is seeking farmers, vendors and artisans. This online initiative gives Big Y’s sales teams the opportunity to explore and connect with local offerings that could be featured in-store.

The Smith family has been farming in America since 1859. Despite all that boots-on-the-ground experience, what might have worked in the business before, even for a whole generation, doesn’t necessarily endure.

Wegmans has launched a pilot with Instacart's Caper Carts in Syracuse, NY. This marks the first deployment of the smart carts at Wegmans.

Caper Carts enable customers to track their spending and check out seamlessly. Caper Carts automatically recognize items as they are dropped into the cart and customers can bag as they shop, tapping signals from an array of Caper Cart cameras, digital scale and location sensors connected to NVIDIA Jetson hardware. Wegmans customers can log in to their Shoppers Club account on the cart’s screen in order to shop with a Caper Cart.