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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

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

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

Maggie Jaqua and Jay Jacobowitz

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.

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

December 22, 2022

Jay Jacobowitz

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...

12 Raise the Bar Members Join INFRA

July 9, 2021

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

St. Paul, MN—The Independent Natural Food Retailers Association (INFRA) has announced that the Board of Directors has approved membership of 12 retailers with 15 locations who are current members of Raise the Bar (RTB) Independent Retail Grocers Alliance. “The Raise the Bar members have long been a community of independent...

Why Private Label Is Your Destiny

October 16, 2018

Corinna Kaufman

If you don’t have a private label brand, you’re dead in the water, according to Daymon’s Private Brand Intelligence Report. Currently, 81% of shoppers are buying private brand products on their shopping trips, and 53% shop at stores specifically for their private brand (1). As transparency continues to be extremely...

Mother's Market Donates $4,000 to Environmental Non-Profit

April 9, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Costa Mesa, CA. — Mother's Market & Kitchen, a natural and organic foods retailer, has donated $4,000 to Beyond Pesticides, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, which works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. Funds were collected from...

Specialty Food Innovator Andrew Balducci Passes at 92

March 30, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Andrew Balducci, owner of the famous Balducci's specialty foods and produce market, died on March 22, 2018 at the age of 92 of acute leukemia. Born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to Maria Miscioscia and Louis Balducci, he spent his childhood in Corato, Italy, before emigrating back to the United States at the...

Create A Compelling Retailer Sales Story

February 20, 2018

Daniel Lohman

Editor’s note: This month we offer a tip for our readers who want to get distribution for their brands. To get your brand on a retailer’s shelf you need to convince them your product will help them make more money. Sounds simple, right? Not so fast. First, you must have...

Love Letter to an Independent

November 20, 2017

Melissa Roberson

After some 30 years, Sobsey’s Produce in Hoboken, NJ, has changed hands. Read one woman’s appreciation to learn what a quality retail relationship feels like to a customer and how it can’t be replicated by a behemoth. I first heard about Sobsey’s in church. My husband and I had just...

Retailer Spotlight: Full Circle Farms

November 7, 2017

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Josh Hendrix of CV Sciences talks to Laura Sheehan, founder and owner of Full Circle Market based in Winchester, KY.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/nqQFE1Y84lM"][/vc_column][/vc_row] Paid for and provided by CV Sciences...