Netherlands: Strawberries and raspberries highly featured on Mother's Day

Published 2022년 5월 10일

Tridge summary

Mother's Day shoppers found an abundance of fresh fruits like new crop cherries, nectarines, apricots, and peaches, as well as strawberries and raspberries, available for Mother's Day celebrations. The supermarket ads for the week showed a 4% decrease from the previous week and a 9% increase from the same week last year, with fruit ads making up 47% of the total. Prices for major items like apple juice, seedless watermelons, Honeycrisp apples, avocados, raspberries, sweet yellow onions, Roma tomatoes, and zucchini have significantly increased this year, while bunched roses saw a 30% increase and bunched tulips a 12% decrease.

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Shoppers preparing for Mother's Day celebrations were met with an array of delicious, fresh options. New crop cherries, nectarines, apricots, and peaches arrived from California in time for celebratory fruit salads and desserts. Strawberries and raspberries, the perennial favorites of moms everywhere, were highly featured. Mother's Day cookouts were handled with ease as sweet onions, zucchini, corn, and asparagus were well advertised. Roses were markedly higher in price this year, but tulips gave shoppers a more economical way to make mom feel special. Total ad numbers this week were 269,106, a 4% decrease from last week's 280,744. The total for the same week last year was 9% higher than for this year. The total number of ads broken out by commodity groups: fruit 127,381 (47% of all ads), onions and potatoes 23,886 (9%), vegetables 104,006 (39%), herbs 2,473, ornamentals 9,647 (4%), and hemp 1,713. The number of ads for organic produce was 40,299, 15% of total ads. The following ...

Source: Hortidaily