1. Department: Food

KC/In Conversation:  From The Organic Produce Summit, A Provocative Retailer Roundtable, Part 2

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Content Guy’s Note:  Today, the second part of the Retail Roundtable at the Organic Produce Summit (OPS) in Monterey, California, that I had the chance to facilitate last week.  Our participants this year were Abhi Ramesh, founder and CEO of Misfits Market;  Sonya Constable, vice president of produce at Sprouts Farmers Markets;  and Daniel Bell, director of produce at Grocery Outlet.

We pick up our conversation talking about disconnects and opportunities between growers and retailers.

If you’d like to listen to the OPS conversation as an audio podcast, please click below to download.

The post KC/In Conversation:  From The Organic Produce Summit, A Provocative Retailer Roundtable, Part 2 appeared first on MNB.

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