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Retail Insights® 2025 Retail Universe for U.S. Premium Natural, Organic Foods, Supplements & Personal Care

Natural organic products add $7 billion in 2024, beating conventional grocery channel % growth.

February 20, 2025

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

With 2024 recording a big sales year for natural organic products, retailers are breaking down the numbers and influencers for last year's figures.

Merchandising Insights

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.

Merchandising Insights

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.

NOW Testing of Astaxanthin Purchased on Amazon.com, Walmart.com Confirms "Significant" Quality Failings

August 22, 2023

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

A Role for Personalization in Brick & Mortar?

December 22, 2022

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

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...

Walmart Comes on Strong in Grocery

August 21, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Bentonville, AR — Walmart posted its best quarterly grocery sales growth in nine years and will offer home delivery to about 40% of the country by the end of 2018. Total ecommerce sales also grew 40% for the quarter. The news came during the retailer’s quarterly earnings report in which...

What Walmart Buying Humana Could Mean

April 2, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Bentonville, AR — Walmart is reportedly in talks to acquire Humana. According to a story first reported in the Wall Street Journal, Walmart is holding preliminary talks to buy U.S. health insurer Humana Inc. and the companies are discussing various options. Walmart Inc.’s potential acquisition of a health insurer would...

Lidl Launches Kick Starter Program in Northern Ireland

March 28, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

German discount grocery chain Lidl is launching its Kick Start Supplier Development Program in northern Ireland. The program is designed to help small and medium-sized food businesses grow their brand by being featured in the 190 Lidl stores in the country, reports The Irish Times. Lidl first tested the program...

Walmart Sued for Deceiving Consumers about Organic Eggs

January 9, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Chicago, IL - A federal lawsuit claims Walmart has deceived customers who buy its Organic Marketside brand eggs, according to Reuters. The suit, filed Monday, claims the mega retailer is selling organic eggs laid by hens raised in enclosed structures under package labels that said the birds had access to...

Walmart and Tasty Partner for Millennials

December 7, 2017

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Walmart is partnering with Buzzfeed’s app Tasty aiming to attract new customers and millennial shoppers by linking to products in their videos. On Facebook, Tasty has nearly 91 million followers and their recipe videos have more than 65 billion views. Products that will be featured in the videos available to...