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Merchandising Insights

Succession

Three independent natural products retailers take us on their transition journey.

November 20, 2025

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Explore the experiences of three independent natural retailers who have made a successful transfer of ownership.

Merchandising Insights

Staffing: Strategies For Success

Who's in the workforce, and how can we optimizing our teams to best serve our customers? Read on for insights.

August 28, 2025

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Is there a way for you to improve retail store staffing levels and worker productivity? Some thoughts.

Natural Products News Briefs: Black Girl Vitamins, Cargill, Licata Enterprises & More

What's new in natural? Catch up on the latest!

June 4, 2025

Richard Ortega, Associate Editor, WholeFoods Magazine

Read up on all the latest news in the natural products industry.

Independent Retailers Look Back on 2024 & Ahead to 2025

Our year-end cross-country survey reveals widespread resilience and optimism. Hear what independent natural retailers are thinking and feeling about the year just past, and the year ahead.

January 16, 2025

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

What are independent natural retailers thinking and feeling about the year that just past, and the year ahead? Find out!

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.

Can You Find Good Employees?

September 20, 2017

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

There’s an old saying, “Youth is wasted on the young.” As an independent natural products retailer, you probably wish you could hire someone who possesses the wisdom that comes with age, but with the back muscles of a high school wrestler. Because retail is a physical sport, you must recruit...

3 Shortcuts to Hire A Great Sales Team

August 4, 2016

Jonathan Whistman

It has been said that in business nothing happens until someone sells something! This is true regardless of the type of company you are building. You can have an amazing product or service but until someone sells it…nothing happens. No kids get sent to college, no vacations, no diseases cured, no company...