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25	2025-11-14	Weekly Grocery Store Specialty Crops Feature Activity	Heading into the Holidays Retailers embraced the upcoming holiday season this week, offering savings on baking supplies, decorations, grocery staples, and fresh produce favorites. Poinsettias appeared in the ads, ranging from golden autumn varieties to red and white Christmas standards. Hard squashes, sweet potatoes, green beans, and mushrooms were often advertised together or alongside turkeys in Thanksgiving-themed ad sections. Cranberries, pomegranates and persimmons added to arrays of year-round staples like avocados, grapes, and berries. Citrus was also popular, with limes, lemons, oranges, and tangerines highly featured. Total ad numbers this week were 282,460, about steady from last week's total of 283,340. The total for the same week last year was 7% lower at 263,734. The total number of ads broken out by commodity groups: fruit 149,321 (53%), onions and potatoes 26,066 (9%), vegetables 101,147 (36%), herbs 1,140, ornamentals 1,374, hemp 2,525, and honey 2,027. The number of ads for organic produce was 36,079, 12% of total ads. The following are the prices of major advertised items (3,000 plus ads) this week, compared to the same week last year. Significant increases in price for fruit this week included only lemons (2 lb. bag) at 53%. There were no significant decreases. Significant changes in price for potatoes and onions this week included only a 17% increase for Russet potatoes (5 lb. bag). Significant increases in price for vegetables this week included sweet potatoes (per lb.) at 10%. There were no significant decreases.