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LifeDNA now provides consumers with curated New Chapter vitamin and supplement recommendations.

LifeDNA Provides DNA-Based New Chapter Supplement Recommendations

May 1, 2023

Wellness service and personal genomics company LifeDNA shared the news that it now provides consumers with curated New Chapter vitamin and supplement recommendations based on their personal DNA.

Natural Grocers Debuts Free Personalized Shopping Experience

A Nutritional Health Coach will guide consumers as they shop, sharing product knowledge and recommending products that will help support each shopper's personal wellness goals.

April 7, 2023

Maggie Jaqua

Natural Grocers is debuting its Personalized Shopping Experience at select stores. As part of the free service, a Nutritional Health Coach (NHC) will guide consumers as they shop, sharing product knowledge and recommending products that will help support each shopper's personal wellness goals.

January 2023

December 22, 2022

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Click here for the January Digital Edition Gain the Insights You Need to Master the Industry's Top Trends... Editorial: 2023 Trends Roundup! Active Aging for Everyone Merchandising Insights: Success Toolkit: Looking Back and Ahead 7 Challenges Impacting Retailers & Solutions Personalization in Brick and Mortar Tip of the Month: Marketing...

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...

A Role for Personalization in Brick & Mortar?

December 22, 2022

Maggie Jaqua

Consumers are keen on the concept of personalization, but can brick-and-mortar independents capitalize on this trend? For insights, we turned to Noah Voreades, Managing Director of GenBiome Consulting. “Personalization in the nutritional supplements market in many ways is still trying to find the right business model, channels, and ways to...

Using AI to Gather Traditional Nutrition Knowledge

October 17, 2022

Anand Swaroop and Anand Swaroop, Ph.D.

People are living longer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are living healthier lives. More than half of adults in the United States have been diagnosed with a chronic illness. In almost all cases, these conditions are caused by poor nutrition. Nutrition is the Root of the Problem The general...

5 Trends in Packaging

September 23, 2022

Marissa Fox

Current market needs are evolving, and the packaging pros are innovating to meet consumer demands. Consumers today are more interested in packaging that reflects their values, but still looks enticing. The top five trends in packaging today: Eco-Conscious Increasingly important to consumers: environmentally friendly products…and...

Tech in Nutraceuticals: A Peek Into the Future

June 2, 2021

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Bangalore, India—There is a growing optimism around the food and nutrition industry globally. That's the word from a global industry survey conducted by nutraceuticals i2c (idea-to-commercialization) platform Nutrify Today, in collaboration with the nutraceuticals brand marketing firm Baker Dillon Group. Nutraceutical industry leaders from the U.S., Israel, Switzerland, Singapore, India, Hong...

Personalized Nutrition: It’s All About Me! You, Too!

October 23, 2017

Laurie Petersen

I set my bags down and plopped into the chair with the folks from iHeart at SupplySide West (SSW) to check off an item on my punchlist — getting familiar with my internal age. The iHeart device clips on the finger and measures stiffness of the arteries through the velocity...