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Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Jay Jacobowitz is President and Founder of Retail Insights®, a professional consulting service to the natural organic products industry, with a focus on retail. With nearly 50 years of industry experience, Jay publishes annually the Retail Insights® Retail Universe for U.S. Premium Natural, Organic Food, Supplement, and Personal Care Sales, the definitive source for natural products sales through all U.S. retail channels, and provides retailers strategic guidance for expansions, relocations, valuations, mergers, and acquisitions.

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2024: Independent Retailers Peer Into Their Crystal Balls

Our year-end interviews with independent natural products retailers reveal goals, challenges, surprising innovation, and resilience.
January 17, 2024
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Our year-end interviews with independent natural products retailers reveal goals, challenges, surprising innovation, and resilience.


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Next Steps: Grooming Young Employees

Flexing schedules, setting pay, finding meaning.
October 30, 2023
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Listen to your fellow independent natural organic retailers from around the country relate their employee recruiting and retention experiences.


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What Can Independents Learn From Other Retailers?

10 key takeaways for natural products retailers.
August 23, 2023
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Independent natural retailers looking to stay in business can benefit from knowing what retailers in the other seven U.S. retail food channels are doing with natural products. Read on for 10 key insights.


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Retail Theft: Symptom of Social Decay

Where has the empathy gone?
June 28, 2023
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Listen to your natural colleagues as they describe retailing in 2023.


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Retail Insights® 2023 Retail Universe

for U.S. Premium Natural Organic Food, Supplement & Personal Care Sales
March 1, 2023
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Industry grows 4.08%, adds $3.887 billion, reaches $99.3 billion total sales


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2023 45th Annual Retailer Survey

What is the state of independent natural products retailers as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic? Find out, and hear from independent retailers, in their own words, on the state of business.
February 28, 2023
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights and Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

What is the state of independent natural products retailers as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic? Find out, and hear from independent retailers, in their own words, on the state of business.



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Looking Back and Ahead: 2022 Review, 2023 Outlook...

December 22, 2022
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights
Trends and Predictions What forces in 2022 will continue in 2023, and which ones will change? Here’s my best guess on a few. Staffing: The massive, late-2022 tech-industry layoffs of tens of thousands of workers will increase the size of the available U.S. workforce. At least some of these newly...
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*!?*! Staffing. You’re not alone.

October 20, 2022
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights
A late September survey of independent natural products retailers across the country about their workforces reveals common problems, continuing pressures, and some silver linings. Midwest Retailer: “Staffing keeps us up at night.” “Staffing is the number one thing that keeps us up at night. In the old days, you could...
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Attracting the Next Generation of Customers is Key

September 23, 2022
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights
Are you seeing new faces? Your historical customers are aging. Attracting the next generations is key. A shrinking generation of original natural products shoppers is a problem for independents. In its third-quarter conference call in August, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, returning to lead the company for the third time,...
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Post-Pandemic, What Do Shoppers Think About Food?

August 25, 2022
Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights
Here’s a number that shows current U.S. thinking: North American air-passenger traffic in May 2022 surged 203% compared to May 2021. Most of us, it appears, have decided to live with a mutating virus and return to normal life. So how does this shift in thinking impact food shopping? Most...
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