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Merchandising Insights

Staffing: Strategies For Success

Who's in the workforce, and how can we optimizing our teams to best serve our customers? Read on for insights.

August 28, 2025

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Is there a way for you to improve retail store staffing levels and worker productivity? Some thoughts.

What's Selling: September 2025

What’s Selling is a monthly review of the best-selling natural and organic products determined from unit sales at natural products stores across the U.S.

August 27, 2025

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

What natural products are driving sales from coast to coast? Find out!

Merchandising Insights

Success, Succession, and Holding Steady

The 2024-2025 view from U.S. independents.

June 6, 2025

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Our cross-country survey of independent natural products retailers reveals widespread resilience. Find out what they told us.

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Who Should Be WholeFoods Magazine's 2025 Retailer of the Year?

Nominate your pick for a natural products retailer who goes above and beyond.

May 21, 2025

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Share your nomination for the 2025 WholeFoods Magazine Retailer of the Year.

Tip of the Month

Need an Exit Strategy?

Here are some things for independent retailers to think about.

April 10, 2024

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

If you are an independent natural products retailer thinking of winding down your involvement in your business, here are some things to think about.

Shoppers Shift Back to Brick & Mortar

May 24, 2022

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

When the pandemic struck two years ago, consumers went online and away from risky in-store shopping as lockdowns, social distancing, and work-from-home trends took effect. Easy, but above all safe, online commerce looked set to displace brick-and-mortar shopping forever. But it turns out, maybe not. The U.S. Census Bureau reports...

Who Are You In The Marketplace?

March 24, 2022

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

What’s your elevator speech? You know, the simple sound bite that describes your business in a way a 10-year-old can understand? Fortunately, a few successful retailers have given us some useful examples to ponder. Dunkin’ CEO Dave Hoffmann recently remarked that his company has been working to make Dunkin’ even...

Reviva Labs Supports Independent Retailers with Free Sampling Promotion

March 23, 2021

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Haddonfield, NJ—Reviva Labs is looking to help solve problems for independent retailers and consumers. The problem: COVID-19 put a stop to in-store demos and forced shelf-based product testers to be removed. Reviva paused its brand ambassador in-store demo program in mid-March 2020 and supported the removal of in-store shelf-based testers...

Cheers to All the Small Businesses Doing Big Things!

March 18, 2021

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

Natural Products Expo West, Plant Based World Expo, IFT21, Organic Produce Summit, Summer Fancy Food Show, KeHE’s 2021 Holiday Show...the list of industry events that have been forced to reschedule or switch to virtual formats continues to grow as concerns and uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic linger. You can find...

Retail Insights® 2021 Retail Universe for Premium Natural Organic Food, Supplement & Personal Care Sales

February 19, 2021

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

The lesson from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic is this: natural products are essential. As the pandemic broke out in early 2020, freaked-out consumers—both existing and those new to natural products—swarmed retailers in all eight U.S. channels we track, snapping up natural immune-support products, and driving robust sales increases in stores...