I am fairly new to the industry, last week I had a client from Florida who sent me a PO for two pallets of raspberry, i gave him a good price, he place the order on Wednesday and i had it in my cold storage in McAllen by Friday, straight from Mexico, i sent him pictures and he was pleased with the quality, he said he would send me a wire upon inspection of the product, on Saturday he calls me and tells me the sale fell through but not to worry, he would send me the wire asap, on Sunday he calls and says he wasn’t able to place them but he wouldn’t let me hanging and just to wait a little bit longer, I called him on Monday and asked politely to send me the wire, he told me he was a broker and he tried to sell the pallets but couldn’t sell them, but he had a buyer, however, the buyer was asking for three additional pallets, I told him I could not send him any additional since he hadn’t even paid for the first ones, he tried explaining to me that the way it works, I get paid when he sells the berries, for what my understanding is, once you place the PO and we deliver, as long as the product is in good order and you accept it, it’s yours, am I right? I ended up selling them to a different buyer, since I didn’t want them to go bad and lose the investment, I sent him a text and told him, I sold them and he just replied “that was the best thing for everyone “ He keeps calling and asking for more fruit, but now I’m hesitant to do business with him, if anyone could shed some light into the subject and guide me a little bit, that would be appreciated.

My brain and my mouth are confused. The name "apple pear" really is fitting. It was the texture of an apple but tasted like a pear. Maybe I'm late figuring this out but 🤷‍♀️

My office is a personal favorite of our hiring manager. Every new hire that comes in gets a tour of our store and he always makes sure to show off my office to them. There's nothing big in it, it's just a bunch of small little knickknacks and decorations. I just added the blue-eyed tiger from my granny Smith apples yesterday, so I was quite proud of that because I haven't seen a box of those come through yet.

This is our largest sales week. We have to have all of the favorites: Potatoes, cranberries, green beans, mushrooms, brussel sprouts, onions, etc. 2-3 times as busy as normal; double sales most days. Glad that it’s over and everyone found what they needed.

It's been a long fucking six days. I'm trying to see some badass displays to unwind. Hope everyone made it through alright.

Let's see some nice Thanksgiving displays!

Happy Holidays

I'll start.

Watermelon is seasonal, stop complaining it don't taste as good or the lack of availability and higher prices.

I recently got hired at a major Canadian retailer, my first time working in far too long.

After orientation on Sunday I followed some poor coworkers for a couple hours kind of trying to figure things out. They all seem like very chill dudes and I think I can handle a place like this, but with how I lost my previous job and my constant anxiety and overthinking I'm frankly terrified I'm going to screw up. Shit, I barely know anything about produce.

I'm doing 4 hours to close tonight, but then they've got me scheduled a couple 8 hour shifts. Can y'all maybe reassure me a bit or give me some tips to ease me?

I'm not a kid, I'm an idiot but not a total idiot, but I just want to start this job a bit more comfortably unlike my previous one/s.

Thanks for reading. I think just writing this crap out helps.

I saw Trumps Truth Social about a 25% tariff on ALL imports from Canada and Mexico.

I work a local, small grocery store and we are getting our a** beat by the big “M” because our costs are higher due to ordering through a 3rd party.

Knowing where and when my produce comes in during the year, I know prices will go up with tariffs. People are already complaining about prices. Some stuff just doesn’t grow in the US or we wouldn’t have certain produce available throughout the year like we do. That’s something my grandpa use to tell me that grocery stores use to not carry due to not being available.

Maybe I’m overthinking it.