Big Week for Area Grocers

WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

Today is expected to be the busiest day of the year at Hunts Points in the Bronx, as store owners get ready for Thanksgiving.

The massive wholesale produce market is a main distribution point for almost everything New Yorkers will eat at Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday. A spokesman for Hunts Point says this includes 80 million pounds of produce, 4 million pounds of sweet potatoes and 500,000 pounds of cranberries. The produce began arriving from wholesalers yesterday afternoon.

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