Fresh Produce

Not so long ago, “locally grown” wasn’t much of a selling point. Everyone had to do it.  Eating hard-to-find, harder-to-grow fruits and vegetables wasn’t an option for most.  These days, anyone can enjoy fresh produce from a farm, grove, orchard, or terraced mountainside garden that’s thousands of miles away, but only if that harvest is delivered on-time.

A Michelin-starred restaurant in Seattle can serve watermelon beets, an Indian-foods distributor in New Jersey can sell fresh bodhi, an Asian market in Houston can stay stocked-up in durian fruit, and you can order a giant box of fiddlehead ferns.  If it can be grown, it can probably be bought and shipped.

Of course, shipping certain fruits and vegetables can be almost as tricky as growing them, and for similar reasons.  They need the right amount of air and moisture, and they need to maintain proper temperatures.  If they’re en route longer than planned, they will likely be unusable or have a reduced remaining shelf life.

PeriShip works with fresh-produce vendors who sell delicate, perhaps hard-to-find fruits and vegetables to restaurants, wholesalers, and consumers.  We monitor and manage your shipments to ensure your customers have a great experience every time they order from you.  Our proactive actions give your perishable items – including fresh produce  – every possible chance to show up just as you and your customers expect them to.

PeriShip’s team of in-house meteorologists identify foreseeable delays due to weather, so you don’t have to.  We will advise you of potential issues that will likely cause delivery interruptions. Our experienced, responsive support team monitors your packages from the time it leaves your facility until it arrives at the final destination.  We track your delivery every step of the way.  We recognize patterns, monitor reports, and intervene when necessary to avoid issues.

We’re especially useful during “peak” times of the year when your staff is at their busiest. With the additional load on logistics carriers, parcel shipments are more likely to get lost in the shuffle.  Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Thanksgiving are holidays when gourmet meals are at a higher priority.

Our easy-to-use customer dashboard keeps you up-to-date on the movement of your produce throughout the delivery process.  Though you’ll be able to view updates throughout your package’s journey, our job is to make the journey uneventful (as in “no news is good news”).  You can concentrate on filling new orders while not worrying about your parcel shipments arriving on-time.

Let PeriShip sweat the details of delivering your fresh fruits and vegetables, so you don’t have to. Contact us today.