New England Produce Center: physical wholesale market in Chelsea Massachusetts
New England Produce Center is located in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and serves the Boston area and New England. Chelsea Massachusetts, United States.
AGR-098 · Physical wholesale market · Chelsea Massachusetts, United States · USD
New England Produce Center is located in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and serves the Boston area and New England. It is a private wholesale centre for fresh fruit and vegetables rather than a derivatives exchange. Supplier searches should use both the centre's name and its actual municipality, Chelsea. Boston appears in regional price-report titles, but should not replace the physical location in the directory.
The operator states that the facility was built in 1968 and comprises 128 store units, with more than 1,000 people employed across the centre. A reference year for the employment figure is not specified. Store units are not equivalent to companies: one merchant may occupy several units. The 2024 tenant map helps explain the layout, but the chosen merchant's current position should be checked before visiting.
Comparative prices can be found in USDA Boston reports. BH_FV010, BH_FV020, BH_FV030 and BH_FV040 cover fruit, vegetables, onions and potatoes, and nuts respectively. These are regional terminal-market reports rather than a single price list binding every NEPC tenant. Check the date, origin, package and quality description. A USD carton quotation cannot be compared directly with a European tax-exclusive kilogram price without the relevant unit and currency adjustments.
The centre website states that buying begins from 05:00 on weekdays. Confirm the actual supplier's working and release hours for a particular order. One tenant's published assortment includes mushrooms, apples, limes, mangoes, pineapples, spinach and romaine lettuce. This does not guarantee daily availability of every item. Buyers should specify quantity, quality and timing and then obtain an actual quotation, including whether delivery is available or collection is required.
Suppliers should contact the receiving business before dispatch. A useful delivery notification includes the unit number, pallet count, product, temperature and receiving contact. A new relationship needs agreed quality checks, sales documentation and payment timing. Mixed consignments should also be checked for transport compatibility and clear lot identification. The centre's distribution role comes from the concentration of businesses, but precise bilateral arrangements determine whether an individual transaction succeeds. Recording the agreed specification and collection responsibilities reduces ambiguity if a consignment arrives late or differs from the original order.
What is priced: Fruit, Vegetables and potatoes, Honey, hops, tobacco and other speciality crops
Where to find the prices
Sources
- Profile and hours
- Tenant map 2024
- USDA reports
- Tenant assortment
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