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Labor Scheduling

The general manager of a 20,000-square-foot natural foods store has found labor scheduling success.

January 16, 2026

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Find out how department-based labor scheduling can bring stability, control labor costs, and improve life-work balance.

Organic Fresh Produce Sales and Volume Edge Up in Q2

Geographically, organic performance was a mixed bag. Take a look at the results.

August 16, 2023

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Organic fresh produce grew slightly in sales dollars and volume in the second quarter of 2023, reversing a trend of volume loss seen in 2021 and 2022.

2023 Leadership Spotlight

Bonnie Shershow, Bonnie’s Jams

The founder of this women-owned business shares the mindset that fuels success and uplifts fellow female entrepreneurs.

June 28, 2023

WholeFoods Magazine Contributor

For more than two decades, Bonnie’s Jams has been focused on one thing: making the best fruit jams, jellies and conserves—all created to pair perfectly with cheese.

IRI Solution Measures Fixed- and Random-Weight Sales

December 11, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Chicago, IL— IRI, in collaboration with The International Dairy Deli Bakery Association (IDDBA), has launched IRI Integrated Fresh, a technology that tracks sales of random-weight as well as traditional UPC items to give retailers and manufactures the ability to measure all items in the store regardless of code type. The...

Study: Healthier Diet = Happier Mood

October 11, 2019

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Sydney, Australia—Following a healthier diet rich in produce, fish, nuts and spices for just three weeks was shown to significantly decrease symptoms of depression, researchers from Macquarie University, Australia, report in PLOS ONE. According to an overview of the research on ScienceDaily, the randomized controlled trial included 76 university students, ages 17...

Produce Show 2017

February 5, 2018

Nancy Trent

It’s not just locavores that are driving the interest in localized fresh produce. Weather and transportation regulations are playing a part in keeping food eaten within miles of where it’s grown. At least that was the sentiment at the NY Produce Show late last year where I got to meet up...

Win-Win with Organics

December 20, 2017

Simi Summer and Simi Summer, Ph.D.

My relationship with food as a health promoting entity began at an early age. When I was less than five, my mother found me at the refrigerator in the middle of the night! I was silently eating a carrot. Wondering what in the world I could be doing, she politely...

Adelle Davis Remembered: The Mother of Nutrition

December 13, 2017

Simi Summer and Simi Summer, Ph.D.

In the early 1970s someone introduced me to natural foods with an Adelle Davis cookbook. Celebrated as the first lady of nutrition and the natural foods industry, her work is still relevant today. Author of four best selling books including "Lets Cook it Right," "Let's Have Healthy Children," "Let's Get...

On the Road: Eating Organic Away from Home

August 25, 2017

Simi Summer and Simi Summer, Ph.D.

Travel has its challenges for those of us who dare to stray from the conventional, especially when it comes to eating. Finding finely prepared certified organic menus in the majority of eateries is not the easiest task and for the most part entirely impossible. So how do you protect yourself...

Organic Produce Tops US Organic Shoppers Grocery Lists

August 16, 2017

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Americans are buying more organic produce and would buy even more if it were less expensive. When compared to such food categories as dairy, meat, seafood, poultry and juice, half of consumers say, in new research from Mintel, they are more likely to purchase organic fresh produce. In addition, 57%...