Idaho potato retail display contest awards record cash prizes

The Idaho Potato Commission awarded a record amount of cash and prizes for its 25th annual retail display contest. The Eagle-based organization doubled the number of award levels and awarded more than $200,000 to winning entries from more than 5,000 retail stores, according to a news release. A Raleys store in Reno, Nev., won first place in the stores with 10 or more registers category. The store drove customers to the produce aisle with two tractors flanking the display of a super-sized Idaho russet potato perched on the back of a red truck. In the military commissary division, entrants competed in two categories by store size for the trophy and a trip to the Produce Marketing Association’s 2016 annual convention in Orlando, Fla. Maribel Cruz of NAS North Island Commissary in San Diego won first in one category and Paul Tuason of the San Diego Naval Base Commissary took first in the second category. More