Peddler's Son Tour 2010

We have built our business on a foundation of basic principles that include great service, great quality, honest prices and loyalty to our customers and employees. Our home is your home! We are proud of our facility and would be honored to show it off to you and your staff. We can show you everything from how your product is received, to how it is stored in our coolers that are temperature specific to the product that they store, down to how your order is picked and delivered. You will also meet the best team in the business that makes it all possible for us to provide you with the great product and customer service that we strive for. Just ask a representative and we can schedule a tour. Our goal at Peddler’s Son Produce, is to build lasting relationships.

We love Yelp!

Bravi Italian Kitchen hosted our January Tweetup. Gabi, from Yelp, joined us to learn more about Yelp for Business Owners. This is a wonderful tool that offers businesses the ability, through a business account, to keep customers updated with special offers and announcements, send private or public messages and track your business's page views. Yelp even created a video to walk you through all of tools and you can check it out here.

In my opinion, local and real-time search are the future. Yelp now gives us more tools to work in this environment and I can't wait to see how things progress.

What do you think about local search? Do you Yelp? Do you comment on other sites? What about other social media tools?

Ahh the new year, looking forward to.........

Valentine's Day! Yes, already. It's just around the corner and I bet you're wondering about the connection between this holiday and produce. Turns out, there are loads of fruits and vegetables that are connected with this holiday. The following article from www.fruitandveggieguru.com outlines several items that have been tied to romance and the holiday.

Why send flowers? Chocolate is soooo 2009, celebrate Valentine's Day 2010 with fruit and vegetables!

So, does anyone have any other fruit and vegetable suggestions?

Yelp! It's the Next Tweetup!

According to their site, Yelp! allows consumers to share the experiences they've had with local businesses and lets business owners share information about their business with their customers. Simply put, it's word of mouth-- amplified. Yelp! is also available for businesses. Once you've unlocked your page you can use Yelp for Business Owners to provide updated information on your business, post announcements and special offers, and communicate with your customers.

Want to learn more? Join us at our next meeting where Gabi M, the Community Manager for Yelp Phoenix will join us.

Where: Bravi Tuscan Kitchen
5940 W. Union Hills
Glendale, AZ
602 - 588-3000

When: Jan 12, 2010
2:00pm

Why: It's free and a great way to learn more about social media

Please RSVP to Dwight Wintringer at 602 410 1642

Check out the following links:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/PeddlersSon

http://twitter.com/YelpAZ
Web: http://gabiaz.yelp.com

If your restaurant is on Twitter, please send your Twitter Name to us and we will add you to our list of followers.

Do you Yelp? What do you think?

Homegrown Tomatoes - Nothing in the world like homegrown tomatoes!

We want to welcome Fresh & Local, LLC to the Peddler's Son Produce extended family of vendors! Jaime Zavala and his family, based out of Stanfield, AZ, are growing our pesticide-free cluster tomatoes.

Our customers have asked for more locally grown produce to support their sustainability programs as well as the local economy. Here at Peddler's Son Produce, we're doing the same. We're creating a program that outlines not only locally grown produce, but things we're doing to help our people and the environment.

What do your sustainability programs include? What is most important to you?

We'd love to hear from you to help you in your efforts.

Yankee Fan?!

For today, Mark Damato, our Vice President of Retail Sales, is a Yankee fan. You see, at the beginning of baseball season Mark made a bet with Aliza, our human resource representative. The loser wears the winning team's apparel. Aliza just happens to be a Yankee fan and Mark a Red Sox fan.

Our fellow team members think Mark looks much better in blue than red.

Aliza would like to thank Mark for being a good sport and also says 'In your face!'

Ahhhh. The spirit of competition lives at Peddler's Son Produce.

Sweeeeet Tomatoes!

We're really excited about our new partnership with Desert Glory. Starting next week, we will sell Desert Glory Yellow Cherry Tomatoes and Grape Tomatoes exclusively. These really are the sweetest and best tomatoes I've tasted.

The tomatoes are grown year round and are consistently priced. All of the tomatoes are vine-ripened and have a shelf life of 21 days. Remember to store tomatoes at room temperature in a shaded area and never refrigerate.

Still not sure? Give me a call and I'm happy to stop by with a sample for you to try for yourself!