Rice Fruit and Wal-Mart team up again for huge peach displays
Rice Fruit and Wal-Mart team up again for huge peach displays
August in Pennsylvania can only mean one thing: sweet, juicy and delicious tree-ripened peaches.
Wal-Mart and Rice Fruit Co. in Gardners, PA, teamed up for the second year in a row to recognize Pennsylvania's peach industry with a giant display of Pennsylvania peaches in both the Carlisle, PA, and Chambersburg, PA, supercenters.
The peach displays go hand-in-hand with Wal-Marts Store of the Community effort, which places products that customers want to buy in the stores meaning more local produce, like the Pennsylvania-grown peaches featured in this promotion.
The displays also support the Pennsylvania Department of Agricultures PA Preferred program, through which Pennsylvania products are made available to consumers so that they can support the states economy and local farmers, encouraging the growing of fresh produce in their own backyards. Rice Fruit Co. and Wal-Mart are two of an ever-growing list of companies that have committed to the PA Preferred program.
"Pennsylvania is known for producing some of the sweetest, most flavorful peaches in the nation," said John Rice, vice president and sales manager at Rice Fruit Co. And Rice Fruit Company is proud to pack and distribute these peaches in Wal-Mart supercenters across the state.
Richard Hite, regional buyer for Wal-Mart, said, Store of the Community is extremely important to us at Wal-Mart. Providing local produce in our stores not only gives the customers what they really want, but were also supporting Pennsylvanias local agriculture.
Wal-Mart and Rice Fruit Co. in Gardners, PA, teamed up for the second year in a row to recognize Pennsylvania's peach industry with a giant display of Pennsylvania peaches in both the Carlisle, PA, and Chambersburg, PA, supercenters.
The peach displays go hand-in-hand with Wal-Marts Store of the Community effort, which places products that customers want to buy in the stores meaning more local produce, like the Pennsylvania-grown peaches featured in this promotion.
The displays also support the Pennsylvania Department of Agricultures PA Preferred program, through which Pennsylvania products are made available to consumers so that they can support the states economy and local farmers, encouraging the growing of fresh produce in their own backyards. Rice Fruit Co. and Wal-Mart are two of an ever-growing list of companies that have committed to the PA Preferred program.
"Pennsylvania is known for producing some of the sweetest, most flavorful peaches in the nation," said John Rice, vice president and sales manager at Rice Fruit Co. And Rice Fruit Company is proud to pack and distribute these peaches in Wal-Mart supercenters across the state.
Richard Hite, regional buyer for Wal-Mart, said, Store of the Community is extremely important to us at Wal-Mart. Providing local produce in our stores not only gives the customers what they really want, but were also supporting Pennsylvanias local agriculture.
