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34	2025-09-12	Weekly Grocery Store Specialty Crops Feature Activity	Fall Promotions It was an eventful week at grocery stores this week, with multiple promotional opportunities for produce retailers. With Rosh Hashanah occurring soon, stores were stocked with celebratory staples such as pomegranates, carrots, honey, and apple and grape juices. Football season is in full swing, and tailgating favorites like fruit and vegetable snack trays, lemons, limes, baby carrots, and bell peppers were in the starting lineup. National Hispanic Heritage Month was recognized in several flyers, featuring sales on tomatillos, onions, Roma tomatoes, cilantro, jalapenos, plantains, cactus pads, mangos, papayas, and sweet corn. Displays of hard squashes, pumpkins, and apple cider left no doubt that Fall is here, at least in spirit anyway. Speaking of spirits, stores were offering scary good deals on Halloween candy, costumes, and décor. Total ad numbers this week were 293,624, a 3% increase from last week's total of 285,759. The total for the same week last year was 3% higher at 302,585. The total number of ads broken out by commodity groups: fruit 162,251 (56%), onions and potatoes 21,752 (7%), vegetables 97,499 (33%), herbs 512, ornamentals 5,104, hemp 3,366, and honey 3,652. The number of ads for organic produce was 48,262, 16% 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 Honeycrisp apples (per lb.) at 22%, red seedless grapes at 16%, and Gala apples (3 lb. bag) at 13%. Significant decreases included yellow nectarines (per lb.) at 12%, cantaloupes (each) at 11%, and avocados (each) at 11%. Significant changes in price for potatoes and onions this week included only a 10% increase for Russet potatoes (5 lb. bag). Significant increases for vegetables this week included only green cabbage at 11%. Significant decreases included cucumbers at 22% and broccoli crowns at 14%.