Tourtellot, a family-owned business since 1884, has 509 retail partners, 263 suppliers, and 57 team members.
“As a produce distributor, we work with both large and small grocery retailers across the Northeast; in Rhode Island we work with family-owned grocers all the way to national chains,” said Cohen. “What’s really important to us about this bill is that it’s actually an investment in the grocery industry the funds from this would be used for a SNAP incentive program and the way that program works is that folks who are using SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps, at their local grocery store would have additional funds to spend on healthy fruits and vegetables.”GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST