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Taste the Local Difference™ 2014 launches at Tom’s Food Markets

Taste the Local Difference | July 1, 2014 | By MLUI

Tom’s is the proving ground for a new marketing strategy featuring brightly colored “shelf talker” labels, designed to help shoppers identify the local food throughout the stores. The shelf talkers also show how far each product was grown or made from tha...

'Taste the Local Difference' connects consumers with local food

Taste the Local Difference | March 6, 2014 | By Bill Palladino

When the snow melts (and yes it will all go away one of these days,) farmers in northwest Michigan will be in their fields sowing the crops that many of us will eventually buy. But unless you have a personal relationship with a farmer, or regularly visit ...

GM, Ford, Chrysler and food

Taste the Local Difference | October 17, 2013 | By Bill Palladino

We're a big, proud, two-handed state. For an entire century we've been known for greatness, and the one proud thing to rule them all is the great American automobile. It started here, innovated here, and is still struggling to reemerge here. Just like our...

Behind the scenes at cherry harvest

Local food, Taste the Local Difference | August 1, 2013 | By Zoë McAlear

A few weeks ago, the farmers market doubled in size. Summer had truly arrived and all of the stands were overflowing with new produce—local cherries in particular. All the farmers offered free samples, and there were few shoppers who didn’t give in. Cherr...

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