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Podcast: The Produce Retail Podcast
Episode: Fortinos senior director of produce and floral Kevin Climie talks new items, assortment, career and more
Description: We're delighted to have as our guest on this week's episode Kevin Climie, senior director of produce and floral at Fortinos. Fortinos operates 23 – soon to be 24 – locations in the Greater Toronto, Hamiliton area. Fortinos is under the Loblaws umbrella but functions as an independent, so all Fortinos stores are franchised and have individual owners. In this conversation, Kevin and The Produce Retail Podcast host Ashley Nickle discuss how he keeps up with trends; how he finds and trials new items; how new items factor into the shopping experience at Fortinos; how he approaches assortment overall; the role foodservice plays for F...