New York, NY — The 2018 Summer Fancy Food Show took place on June 30 – July 2 at the Javits Center bringing under one roof over 2,400 exhibiting companies and 34,000 attendees trying to stake a claim in the growing specialty foods market. According to the Specialty Foods Association,...
Next month, Amazon will reach its first anniversary owning Whole Foods Market. How’s it doing so far? As we expected, Amazon will not spend a lot of time giving us specific results for its Whole Foods unit, which makes up less than 10% of Amazon’s total sales. In what appears...
Whole Foods Market’s loyalty program will be folded into Amazon Prime, which has over 100 million Prime members worldwide, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed in his annual shareholder letter this week. For context, the U.S. has about 126 million households, notes Retail Insights president and founder Jay Jacobowitz, "which leads...
More consumers are making short stops at Whole Foods Markets that have installed Amazon lockers and many of them are likely to be incremental customers. These short, or “micro” visits, which can be from three to five minutes long, are up by 11% since Amazon closed its purchase of Whole...
Roughly 200 suppliers met with Whole Foods Market this week in Austin, TX, to clear the air amid growing tensions over merchandising costs and other changes that were in place before the Amazon acquisition. Senior executives officially unveiled the Amazon Prime loyalty program, which will give exclusive Whole Foods Market...
Now there’s a way to listen and learn about developments in the natural products industry while you’re on the go. We’re pleased to introduce our new podcast, The Natural View. Every month (or more frequently if the spirit moves us) we’ll be talking about the big stories influencing the industry,...
Pictures of empty produce sections and disheveled shelves are circulating widely on Twitter as a new order-to-shelf inventory control system is wreaking havoc on morale and supply at Whole Foods Markets across the country, according to a Business Insider report quoting seven anonymous employees. Employees say the "OTS" system was...
[caption id="attachment_55434" align="alignleft" width="160"] Nicole Wescoe[/caption] Englewood Cliffs, NJ — Nicole Wescoe was named president of Whole Foods Market's Northeast region. The 24-year company veteran will oversee 41 stores in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Wescoe worked her way up from a team leader position in the bakery, specialty and...
Austin, TX — As Whole Foods Market continues its transformation under new parent Amazon.com, suppliers have been given notice of what it will cost. According to the Washington Post, an email recently sent to the company’s suppliers, spells out the new system. Under the previous system, suppliers could run in-store...
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.
