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The 17th Annual Lancaster Pride Gets Donation Of Free Fresh Nuts And Dried Fruit From American Farmers

Lancaster, PA., (June 19, 2025) – The 17th annual celebration of Lancaster Pride at the Lancaster County Convention Center. https://www.lancasterpride.org/ . The event is scheduled for June 28 from noon to 6 pm. For the first time ever, this event will be free. 

A number of local companies are showing their support to help this event succeed in its 17th year. One of them is Wholesale Nuts And Dried Fruit, https://wholesalenutsanddriedfruit.com/, a company located in downtown  Lancaster. The donation is in the form of raw hazelnuts grown from proud farmers in Oregon and figs grown from proud farmers in California. There will be well over 100 volunteers working to support this event going smoothly. Offering free food of high nutritional value is a priority to the event producers.  

Some of the events on June 28 will include:

  • Two stages of live entertainment
  • More than 200 vendors and community organizations
  • Food Truck Village
  • Family-friendly Kids Zone
  • A mass Vow Renewal ceremony
  • LGBTQ+ history installations and interactive experiences
  • Launch of the Lancaster Queer History Project

Bringing together farmers with events to support has been the mission of Wholesale Nuts And Dried Fruit. Creating unconventional events and supporting the production of events including festivals, concerts, and shows. Lancaster has always been the best place in Pennsylvania for emerging food brands. 

Recent nutrition trends emphasizing plant-based proteins and minimally processed whole foods have driven increased demand for the company’s products. Nuts, dried fruit, and seeds serve as excellent sources of bioavailable plant proteins, healthy fats, and essential micronutrients.  These benefits are maximized when products maintain their peak nutritional profiles through proper handling and distribution.

Quality control measures include detailed documentation of sourcing locations, harvest dates, processing methods, and transportation conditions. This transparency enables customers to make informed purchasing decisions based on scientific quality indicators rather than marketing claims alone.

The company serves individual consumers and businesses nationwide through its e-commerce platform, providing detailed product information and sourcing documentation to support informed purchasing decisions. Customer education remains a priority, with resources explaining the science behind ingredient quality and proper storage methods to maximize nutritional value.

About Wholesale Nuts and Dried Fruit

The 17th Annual Lancaster Pride Gets Donation Of Free Fresh Nuts And Dried Fruit From American Farmers

Photo Courtesy: Wholesale Nuts and Fruits

Wholesale Nuts and Dried Fruit, based in Phoenix, Arizona, is a direct-to-consumer provider of premium, additive-free nuts and dried fruits. Through direct partnerships with sustainable farmers, the brand delivers high-quality, minimally processed products, including almonds, walnuts, pistachios, cashews, and dried fruits, to households, retailers, and wholesalers. For more information, visit wholesalenutsanddriedfruit.com.

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The Future of Ecommerce Infrastructure: One Platform to Rule Them All

By: Lindsay Mazi

In today’s ecommerce landscape, growth doesn’t just bring more revenue — it brings more tools, more vendors, and more complexity.

As brands cross the $1 million annual revenue threshold, they often find themselves juggling five or more separate platforms just to manage a single customer transaction. There’s a payment processor, a fraud detection tool, a checkout customizer, a subscription manager, and a conversion optimizer. Each adds its own layer of cost, risk, and fragmentation.

But a new wave of infrastructure is emerging — built not to patch the chaos, but to eliminate it.

Enter Lasso, the unified checkout operating system for scaling ecommerce brands. Based in Wilmington, Delaware, Lasso is reimagining what ecommerce infrastructure should look like — not as a pile of disconnected tools, but as one seamless, centralized suite that helps brands move faster, sell more, and protect revenue at every step.

“Our goal was to eliminate the chaos of five different tools and give ecommerce teams one powerful suite to manage it all,” said the team behind Lasso. “From checkout to chargebacks, we wanted to unify the ecommerce stack.”

The Problem with the Current Stack

Most fast-growing brands build their backend on the fly. They choose whatever tools are easiest to implement in the moment — not necessarily the ones built for scale. But the result is a tangled mess of logins, APIs, conflicting metrics, and rising costs.

And when something breaks — a failed payment gateway, a misconfigured A/B test, or a surge in fraud — the merchant is left scrambling to troubleshoot across platforms that were never meant to work together.

Lasso solves this by giving merchants a single dashboard where they can manage:

  • Multi-processor payment routing and gateway failover
  • Checkout design and split testing
  • Post-purchase upsells and funnels
  • Advanced fraud protection
  • Subscription management and analytics
  • Chargebacks, refunds, and disputes

By consolidating the tech stack, Lasso doesn’t just reduce software bloat — it actively boosts performance.

Built for Brands Doing Real Volume

Lasso is not a basic Shopify plugin or a generic checkout overlay. It’s a full-stack infrastructure layer designed for brands doing $1M to $100M+ in annual sales. That means more robust tools, deeper integrations, and enterprise-grade reliability — but without the enterprise complexity.

Many of the platform’s features are built specifically to help high-volume brands unlock hidden revenue, including:

  • Multi-processor routing to reduce failed payments
  • Gateway failover to preserve revenue during outages
  • Real-time A/B testing to find winning checkout flows
  • Built-in upsells to lift average order value without coding
  • Automated fraud filters to cut chargebacks and manual reviews

Infrastructure That Scales With You

One of the most powerful things about Lasso is that it scales as you grow. Whether you’re a mid-6-figure brand trying to tighten your conversion funnel, or a 9-figure operation looking for global processor redundancy, Lasso adapts to fit the stage you’re in.

This scalability is crucial for ecommerce brands graduating from scrappy tactics to sustainable systems. At a certain level, minor tweaks to your checkout flow — even 1–2% improvements in conversion or decline recovery — can translate into hundreds of thousands in annual revenue.

That’s the Lasso difference: not just making checkout easier, but making it smarter.

The Future of Checkout Is Invisible

Just like Stripe changed the way developers handle payments, Lasso is changing the way ecommerce teams approach checkout.

By consolidating infrastructure, Lasso makes ecommerce smoother for merchants and more seamless for customers — delivering better experiences, higher conversions, and fewer points of failure.

But the vision doesn’t stop there. As payment technology continues to evolve, Lasso is building toward a future where checkout isn’t just a page — it’s a strategy. One that adapts in real-time to customer behavior, network conditions, and business priorities.

The best checkout is invisible. And with Lasso, brands can get closer to that ideal every day.

About Lasso

Lasso is the unified checkout infrastructure built for high-growth ecommerce brands. With features like payment routing, A/B testing, and fraud protection all under one hood, Lasso replaces the chaos of disconnected SaaS tools with a single, streamlined platform designed to scale. To learn more or join the waitlist, visit lassocheckout.com.

 

Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is for general informational purposes only. Readers are encouraged to conduct their own research before making business or technology decisions.