What’s Selling is a monthly review of the best-selling products determined from unit sales at six natural products stores around the country, rotated from a base of selected stores. The intention is to provide indications of sales trends.
The rise of the selfie has been incredibly fast. Everyone from the President to Britain’s royal family to the Pope has been caught in the act of posing for the occasional selfie. According to Social Times, millions of these self-portraits taken at arm’s length travel across cyberspace daily, many of...
I’m tempted to start this article with the words, “Here we go again.” The World Health Organization (WHO) recently came out with a resport resulting in a glut of headlines all sounding something like this: “Bacon Causes Cancer.” And, since I’ve made my love for bacon pretty well-known—in fact, I’m...
This has definitely been the year of negative media throughout the dietary supplement industry. The omega-3 segment, long the darling of the industry with solid science and years of double digit growth, has been no exception. To be clear, this is not only a 2015 phenomenon, as we have been...
This month's best sellers. What’s Selling is a monthly review of the best-selling products determined from unit sales at six natural products stores around the country, rotated from a base of selected stores. The intention is to provide indications of sales trends. Retailers: Give your store a chance to shine! Participate in our...
You’ve probably heard the term “frenemies,” a new word that combines “friends” and “enemies.” In the business world, frenemies are two competitors that cooperate with each other to increase business, but at the expense of sharing customer purchase data and other proprietary business information. The birth of the Internet spawned...
For independent retailers seeking to compete in a mass-market world, differentiating ourselves through customer service and an educated staff has become more important than ever. However, when you own your business and are responsible for everything from paying the bills to buying product, finding the time to build a successful...
Did you do anything special on July 31, 2015? It was a blue moon, the second of two full moons in the same month. While it is not as rare as finding a black pearl in an oyster, this lunar event is just uncommon enough to inspire the advice...
An Interview with Manfred Eggersdorfer, Ph.D.With a fairly predictable regularity of once a decade or so, the general media likes to write articles questioning the safety of vitamin E supplements. It’s called “sensationalism press.” The idea is to get attention by going against common knowledge. It gains attention and sells...
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