Global Industry: Kroger partners with Infarm

Bremerhaven. (bm) The Kroger Company, America’s largest grocery retailer, and Infarm, the world’s fastest growing urban farming network, announced a partnership that will bring modular living produce farms to North America, delivering produce picked so fresh you can see the roots. The partnership between Kroger and Germany’s Infarm marks the first-of-its-kind in the United States. Other topics of the week:

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