Call me crazy, but I’ve never been confused into thinking that peanut butter, cashew butter, almond butter, or even an olive-oil spread called “butter” was the same thing as dairy butter. Nor have I ever met another person who has confused a vegan butter product with real butter. Yet, there...
If you were to poll a large audience of people today and ask about safety of drugs versus natural herbal remedies, you would most likely get a larger amount of people who feel that natural also means harmless. For the most part, natural remedies are commonly very safe. That said,...
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.
In 2014, we debuted our Person of the Year feature as a way to recognize the person (or people) who have made the biggest impact specifically on the natural products industry. That impact could be positive or negative, or a mix of both. For 2021, a year marked by negatives...
The Heart of Business by Hubert Joly This book is a great resource for anyone who aims to become a better leader. The central theme is that organizations are kept alive by their people. We are encouraged to become more aware of what drives us as employees and leaders, and...
If you’re reading the first sentence of this article that means the headline message (Don’t Eat Eggs!) got your attention. Unfortunately, those kinds of headlines always get attention, and we see them everywhere whenever a negative study about eggs comes out. Most of those scary headlines lead to click-bait-y blogs...
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.
It’s a pretty powerful statement when a store has such an impact on you that it changes the direction of your personal journey. That’s what happened to Amabel Narvaez, who used to call the Pacific Northwest home (and loved the store so much that she took a job there), but...
A beautiful red-hued berry brew, consumed hot or cold, that is healthy and beneficial for my good health—I am in! Hibiscus tea has a cranberry-like, tart flavor, and is consumed around the world, in places such as Central America, India, Mexico, Persia, Cambodia, and even in the Caribbean. It is...
We'll probably never fully replace trade shows, nor should we. But the days when you send a contingent of employees on multiple overnights to hunt for new products are likely over. We won’t spend a lot of time rehearsing why, but briefly: pandemic uncertainty, increasing cost, and reduced access to...
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