Whole Foods

  1. Department: Food
In today’s dynamic food retail landscape, grocery store service delis, once known for their quality, convenience, and fresh food options, are struggling to meet the demands of a modern consumer base hungry for more than just another cold cut or outdated salad option. Consumers desire for grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food consumers […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
  A Battle for Share of Stomach Over the past 15 years, the grocery retail sector has undergone significant disruption, fueled by shifting consumer behavior, advancements in technology, and intensified competition. What was once a stable, predictable industry now faces increasing complexity as consumer expectations evolve and alternative distribution channels gain prominence according to Steven […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
Whole Foods is beloved for its focus on natural, healthy products, but it can be limiting. That’s why Whole Foods’ owner Amazon is reportedly testing out a number of grocery solutions to offer customers access to products not sold in Whole Foods (think items with artificial sweeteners or color additives), but without requiring them to […]
  1. Channel: Restaurants
  Steven Johnson the Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® believe that in a rapidly evolving food and convenience landscape, the ability to tap into new consumer behaviors is essential. Claim, the viral social app targeting Gen Z, is not just reshaping the digital marketing game, but is teaching valuable lessons for restaurants, […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
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  1. Department & Category
  True Food Kitchen, the health-focused casual-dining chain, is stepping boldly into the grocerant niche with its newest concept, True Food Market—a fusion of fast-casual dining and grab-and-go retail. According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®, recently, near its headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, True Food Market opened its doors, marking […]
  1. Channel: Grocery - Natural
  Consumers are focusing in on two powerful forces that are reshaping the food industry: climate sustainability and product pricing. Restaurants, convenience stores, and grocery stores are keenly aware of these shifts as they adapt to meet the purchasing preferences of the largest and most socially conscious generations—Gen Z and Millennials according to Steven Johnson […]
  1. Channel: Grocery
  When Kroger Company announced the launch of Harris Teeter’s HT Traders Ready Made Meals, it felt like déjà vu—a familiar attempt at capturing the lucrative grocerant niche that, yet again, missed the mark according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.   Johnson believes that, Kroger’s repeated misfires in the […]
  1. Department: Food
  The age-old question, “What’s for dinner?” has perplexed families for generations, often leading to indecision and reliance on fast food or takeout. Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® believes if your food marketing tactics look more like yesterday than tomorrow, you need to move forward.     However, convenience stores (C-stores) […]
  1. Data & Insights
Accessibility is a key to successful businesses and individuals. Accessibility is defined as the quality of being easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, use, or understand. Every individual and business should audit themselves on how accessible they are. a)        Do we speak simply without using buzz-word bingo and with authenticity, clarity and empathy? b)        […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
  From the perspective of Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®, Amazon’s venture into the grocery space has been a saga of ambitious innovation tempered by real-world challenges. While the tech giant has revolutionized online shopping, its attempts to conquer the grocery sector through Amazon Fresh and the acquisition of Whole […]
  1. Agencies & Vendors
Today’s wellness-oriented consumer is very conscious about the ingredients they put into and onto their bodies. They are just as conscious about the health of the environment. Because of this, they seek products with clean labels and sustainable practices, and if these products provide additional health benefits, all the better. Matt Levine, a health aficionado […]
  1. Channel: Grocery - Natural
Whole Foods Market today released its second annual Impact Report – available here – which provides an in-depth look at the company’s investments in reducing waste, championing climate smart agriculture, empowering its Team Members, thoughtfully sourcing its products, and strengthening the communities in which it operates.� “With our purpose to nourish people and the planet […]
  1. Department & Category
Whole Foods Market has announced a nationwide partnership with Too Good To Go, a marketplace dedicated to finding distribution channels for surplus food. Whole Foods customers can now purchase “surprise bags” of surplus food items from more than 450 stores across the U.S. through the Too Good to Go app. The partnership will help Whole […]
  1. Channel: Grocery - Natural
NEW YORK — The first Whole Foods Market Daily Shop location is set to open on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, at 1175 Third Avenue, this fall. The company also announced today the second future location for the Whole Foods Market Daily Shop format, at 301 West 50th Street, in Hell’s Kitchen. An additional New […]
  1. Channel: Grocery - Natural
Direct-to-consumer floral delivery company The Bouqs Co. is popping up in three Whole Foods Market stores throughout California to give local customers fast and easy access to its fresh florals and same-day delivery service.   The “flower shop-in-shops” in Orange County, La Jolla and San Francisco opened shortly following the Mother’s Day rush and is the […]
  1. Channel: Mass
Citing “extremely low volumes” of customers using personal checks, Target will stop accepting checks for in-store payments on July 15, 2024, as reported in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and confirmed by Target. The retailer joins several supermarket retailers that have stopped accepting checks, including Aldi, Whole Foods Market and Lidl. “Target is committed to creating an […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by the cheif revenue officer of ibotta, Chris Jensen. ibotta is a leading performance marketing platform that has delivered more than $1.8 billion in cumulative rewards to its users. Launched in 2012, ibotta has more than 50 million downloads, is one of the most frequently used shopping […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Service is a mission-critical activity that deserves your attention today and every day. Key findings and surprises from Bizrate Insights’ January 2024 survey of 900 online shoppers provide a framework to view what is most important to the demanding online shopper. Retailers must beware. A look at the mindset of the online shopper relative to […]

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The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Mark Baum, Chief Collaboration Officer at the Food Marketing Institute and Liz Buchanan, North America President of NielsenIQ. FMI & NielsenIQ are collectively performing a joint research along with Thinkblue LLC – a consulting powerhouse that includes our co-host Sri, on the latest in retail media. […]

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