Source: Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, NY TIMES, 1/22/21


It is the country’s largest wholesale produce market — described as “Costco on steroids” — and the nerve center for New York City’s food supply, providing more than half the fruits and vegetables that end up in takeout boxes and on restaurant plates and supermarket shelves. But a strike over demands for a $1-per-hour raise at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx, the first in over three decades, dented its operations, leaving some produce to rot and threatening to snarl a normally seamless supply chain.

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