date:May 26, 2016
s will be available well into July and into early August.
Michael believes theres still room for growth in the domestic market.
According to Nielsen Perishables Group, a Chicago-based fresh-food consulting company, 76 million Americans eat cherries. About 86 percent of those purchase one bag of Northwest cherries a year.
The rest are full-season shoppers, who buy multiple bags of cherries from the Northwest and other regions such as California.
If each of those some 65 million, one-bag