At the recent SENPA/SOHO natural products trade show, we had the chance to sit with Aaron Gottlieb, founder and owner of Native Sun Natural Foods Market, which has three stores in Jacksonville, FL. Here are excerpts from our conversation. WholeFoods Magazine (WF): Please tell us a little about your stores.
What’s Selling is a monthly review of the best-selling products determined from unit sales at six natural products stores rotated from a base of selected stores. The intention is to provide indications of sales trends.
Jar Goods’ specialty sauces are meant to taste like a homemade sauce, but come in a jar. Their sauces are Non-GMO Project Verified, Vegan and Kosher, where possible. Jar Goods comes in three flavors: Classic Red, Classic Spicy Chili and Classic Vodka. 11 E. Athens Ave. Suite 305, Ardmore, PA...
BumbleBerry Farms has released a line of hand-made honey creams in four different flavors: Maple, Cinnamon, Sea Salt Caramel, and Spiced Chocolate. These honey creams can be used as a spread, flavor for coffee, or a gourmet glaze on meat. 124 Woodside Dr. Somerset, Pennsylvania 15501, www.bumbleberryfarms.com Published in WholeFoods...
Slawsa is a slaw/salsa condiment that combines cabbage-based relish for a spicy kick. It is all natural, fat-free, cholesterol-free, gluten-free, kosher, vegan and low in sodium. The flavors it comes in are original, spicy, fire and garlic. It goes on whatever you would eat with slaw or salsa from burgers...
Walmart is partnering with Buzzfeed’s app Tasty aiming to attract new customers and millennial shoppers by linking to products in their videos. On Facebook, Tasty has nearly 91 million followers and their recipe videos have more than 65 billion views. Products that will be featured in the videos available to...
2017 has been the year for Amazon. Earlier this year, the company merged with WholeFoods Market, which marked their entrance into the health and wellness sphere. Amazon’s next moves appear to be headed in the same direction. AmazonFresh (the online retailer’s grocery delivery service) announced a partnership with EatLove, a...
After finalizing the $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market in record time this summer, Amazon.com is taking the biggest player in the natural channel to places it’s never been. On Amazon time, what would take some companies a year to accomplish happens in a month — or even less.
When asked what keeps him up at night, the CEO of a nutritional supplement company told me it’s the fear someone will die after consuming something they bought on Amazon.com. With the volume of selling that occurs on the platform and the relative lack of scrutiny, it’s a conceivable scenario.
After some 30 years, Sobsey’s Produce in Hoboken, NJ, has changed hands. Read one woman’s appreciation to learn what a quality retail relationship feels like to a customer and how it can’t be replicated by a behemoth. I first heard about Sobsey’s in church. My husband and I had just...
