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Emerging Leaders

Authenticity & Value: Strategies for Greater Success

Industry experts share the know-how that can make the winning difference.

March 28, 2026

Brian Mosser, Owner of Get Healthy / SENPA Emerging Leaders Chair

For natural products retailers, if your community would truly feel your absence, that’s a strong indicator you’re doing something right.

Legal Tips

How to Value Retail Health-Food Store Businesses

Understanding valuation helps with negotiations, financing, strategic planning, and exit planning and succession.

March 27, 2026

Scott C. Tips

There will come a day when you need to know the value of your natural-products business. Here's help.

Emerging Leaders

Competition & Modernization: Strategies for Greater Success

Industry experts share the know-how that can make the winning difference.

March 27, 2026

Brian Mosser, Owner of Get Healthy / SENPA Emerging Leaders Chair

The biggest threat is margin compression from mass retailers offering natural-adjacent products.

Emerging Leaders

Connecting & Engaging: Strategies for Greater Success

Brian Mosser, Owner of Get Healthy / SENPA Emerging Leaders Chair, talks with industry experts to share the know-how that can make the winning difference.

February 17, 2026

Brian Mosser, Owner of Get Healthy / SENPA Emerging Leaders Chair

Natural product retailers are leaning into education and community to compete with online giants.

NOW Health Group Sells Family Shares to Employees

The independent, family-owned manufacturer announced it will be selling stock through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

January 13, 2026

Richard Ortega, Associate Editor, WholeFoods Magazine

The partial ESOP plan is designed to give back to NOW's hard-working employees.

Mastel’s Health Foods to Live On With New Ownership

April 4, 2023

Rebecca Viscomi

Ownership of Mastel’s Health Foods, an independently owned health food store, is being taken over by general manager Lauren Gaffney and marketing manager Alina Hornfeldt.

!?! 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...

Shoppers Look to Relieve Stress Through Functional Ingredients

August 25, 2022

Scott Dicker

In a more typical time, the average person already has plenty of reasons to stress out and lose sleep about what’s happening in their lives. For the last couple of years, however, there have been even more reasons to feel unsettled on both macro and micro levels. The ongoing pandemic,...

Wegmans Program Focuses on Quality Assurance, Product Safety for Supps

April 21, 2022

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Ann Arbor, Michigan—Wegmans Food Markets has announced its new Verified with Confidence program, with the aim of providing quality and consistency to storefronts that consumers can trust and recognize. This initiative will implement testing and review of all of Wegmans Food Markets products at 106 store locations, according to a...

Health Food Stores in Colorado Ordered to Close; NPA Takes Action

April 20, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Updated April 22, 2020 Washington, D.C.—Going against guidance from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Colorado Governor Jared Polis has ordered health food stores selling only health and nutrition-related products in the state to close during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Natural Products Association (NPA). NPA added that Colorado joins...