When shopping at our stores you may notice some signage updates aimed to enhance the Seward shopping experience. Our aim is to provide customers with more prudent information about products on our shelves in order to remove the guesswork from the decision making process. We’d like to draw your attention to the produce and cheese signage in particular.

In Produce, we have increased the amount of signage categories in an effort to be more transparent about our producers’ farming practices and further educate our shoppers on various growing practices. The new color-coded signs give customers a quick way in which to determine if products are certified organic, non-organic, or somewhere in-between. Look for green, yellow, and brown headers on produce signage and in our Seward Co-op color guide to produce. We have literature available at the Customer Service desk that offers definitions of growing practices associated with the labels on the shelf.

In the near future, our cheese signage will note the type of milk used (depicting a silhouette of the source animal for easy identification). The reverse side of the signage will include a brief paragraph composed by our cheese mongers, noting flavor profiles, potential parings, and textural characteristics.