Employees at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx have been hard at work since the early morning hours of the weekend, filling orders and loading trucks ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

All to ensure grocery shelves and restaurants are stocked so that the Thanksgiving spread includes both staple and unique items.

“We are cramming six days’ worth of business into three days. It's a very reduced week. So the overall volume of produce goes up and then you have less time to do it. So we're working around the clock starting Sunday night at, let's say, four in the afternoon, all the way through the Thanksgiving holiday,” said Dan Barabino, vice president at Top Banana.

Top Banana has been a produce distributor at the market since 1996.

This week alone, they will move 1 million pound

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