Market Update Friday 6/9/24
Vegetables
Cabbage Green – cabbage is still very short and close to $5 each.
Burpless Cucumber – very light in supply, hard to find decent burpless for under $3, there is a lot of cheap Geraldton but it’s not good enough for Country.
Zucchini – I haven’t been happy with quality, the recent bad weather has caused a lot of damage and zucchinis are scratchy, price also firm but has come down slightly.
Beans – are extremely short at the moment, there is cheaper stringless beans $18/kg but not good enough to send Country, KB Beans $24+.
Tomatoes – we have had a much better week with a good supply of Geraldton tomatoes, quality a lot better, prices also starting to ease.
Pumpkins – Kent and Butternuts still very short, E/states strong market not helping.
Fruit
Bananas– prices are easing but fruit still very short and quality only ok.
Coconut – some beautiful fruit now coming through if you want to try, also some drinking coconuts.
Oranges – prices are good so make the most of stock those shelves.
Strawberries – good supply so stock those shelves, I will give you best available unless you specify otherwise.
Kiwi Fruit – still waiting next container, hoping for early next week. Still no pre-pack.
Mandarins – getting to that time of year, Afourer have finished and most local fruit not great from water damage, the better-quality fruit is E/States, and we have some Venus Imperials available for Monday/Tuesday, these are very sweet :), these will be $7/kg.
Mangoes – have started but aren’t cheap, customers that have tried them are selling well.
Watermelon– we have some beautiful Kununurra and Broome fruit now coming through and prices have eased.
Have a great weekend
Wes
Tomato Quality
Morning All
The markets are having major trouble with quality of tomatoes, this time of year we rely on Carnarvon tomatoes which are never good enough to send, we always source tomatoes from Queensland and South Australia to help with quality issues, but unfortunately this year they are also having issues, Queensland are having major rains which is affecting fruit, and South Australia are having problems with a virus that is causing their fruit to go black on the inside. We have no choice but to still bring in Queensland tomatoes, but fruit is not the usual quality, and even though we are going through every box for you, there will be the odd bad tomato that can turn bad overnight, please let us know how much you loose and we can organize you a credit.
Also, this time of year when we get our local heavy rains, Onion’s quality does deteriorate, growers are going to open up their storage onion early than expected because we are getting way too many complaints, please know we are buying the best onions available.
In some positive news, Strawberries and blueberries are sensational so stock those shelves.
Have a good week everyone
Regards,
Wes
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Winners are Grinners AGAIN !!!!
Winners are Grinners AGAIN !!!!
On Friday night at The Crown Ballroom, Cunderin IGA took out BEST SMALL STORE FRUIT AND VEG at the 2021 WA Fruit and Veg awards, well done Jayson Goldson and his team.
This is a big achievement for Martins Produce, our shops have won this award 4 years in a row, considering there is over 400 shop nominees every year this is a massive achievement.
Well done to my awesome team here at Martins Produce, led by Brayden Munro and Lindsay Yates, all the very early mornings and hard work makes everything worth while when your Customers win these awards, so well done Boys. It has been a very difficult year with supply, with COVID affecting growers finding workers, add in an extra wet winter and several severe hail storms, we have really had to work hard and be ahead of the market, to make sure we can get supply for our awesome Customers.
WELL DONE TEAM!!!
Below is just some of the awesome work Jayson does with his shop at IGA CUNDERDIN 🙂
Winners are Grinners!!!
Morning All
On Friday night our Customer BG’s Farmstand Busselton took out WA BEST FRESH PRODUCE RETAILER OF THE YEAR “SMALL STORE ”
So congratulations to Michael and Tonia, great achievement.
We also had 3 of the top 6 Finalist for BEST REGIONAL STORE.
Have a great week.
Wes
Fruit and Veg Displays
Morning All
Please see below some display ideas, there are many ways you can present your produce, have a look and see if there’s any ideas you can try in your displays.
The more time you can put into your displays, you will see the results in your sales, if you have produce breaking down, please get it off the shelf and sell at a discounted price so you don’t stop sales.
Have a great week
Wes
WINNERS ARE GRINNERS!!!!!!
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Well done to my amazing team at Martins Produce!!
Supplier to the winner of WA’s Best Small Store Fruit and Veg Award for the second year running.
Out of 280 nominees we had 2 shops make the final 5
CUNDERDIN IGA – WINNER !!!!!
BG’S FARMSTAND BUSSELTON
Congratulations to both shops on an amazing job with your fruit and veg, a lot of hard work so well done!!!
We had Wagin Foodworks win the same award last year so its a big thrill and very rewarding for all the early mornings and hard work.
Now lets make it a 3 in a row next year 🙂
Cunderdin IGA 2019 Winners !!!
Wagin Foodworks 2018 Winners !!!
CUSTOMER DISPLAY
Please see below what a great job Jayson from IGA Cunderdin is doing with his display, obviously it takes a lot of time and work but the end result looks great, well done Jayson !!!
