Because the Coachella Valley grape deal usually gets under way around May 15, grape supplies for the Memorial Day pull, especially for East Coast buyers, are usually few and far between.

“Not this year,” said Rob Spinelli, who sits on the sales desk at Anthony Vineyards Inc., which is headquartered in Bakersfield, CA, but has grape production in the Coachella Valley as well as the San Joaquin Valley.

Stanton, Jordon, Robert, Ken, Kirk, Steve, and Kevin Holthouse.The Ohio Proud program, “is huge for us,” said Kirk Holthouse, sales manager of Holthouse Farms of Ohio Inc., based in Willard, OH.

Whole Foods Market announced plans to open stores in three new locations: Cherry Hill, NJ, Indianapolis and Richmond, VA.

Whole Foods will open its newest Mid-Atlantic store in Cherry Hill on June 18. The new store will be more than 45,000 square feet and will be the first location in the company to feature the "Hatchery" — a pop-up entrepreneurial space within the store where local suppliers, chefs, craftspeople and innovators have the opportunity to sell directly to Whole Foods Market customers. A different artisan will be featured each day of the store’s opening week.

Railex, a leader in cold chain transportation and logistics, will expand its national footprint with the opening of its temperature-controlled multimodal and 3PL services in Jacksonville, FL, starting June 2014.

The state of Idaho produces more than 25 potato varieties, and the Idaho Potato Commission promotes them all.

SuperValu Inc., the owner of Cub Foods, along with four Twin Cities-based independent grocery retailers, announced they had each entered into definitive agreements to acquire 18 Rainbow Foods grocery stores.