Jay Jacobowitz
Retail Insights® 2021 Retail Universe for Premium Natural Organic Food, Supplement...
The lesson from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic is this: natural products are essential. As the pandemic broke out in early 2020, freaked-out consumers—both existing...
2020 Year in Review Part 2: Retailers Weigh In
Part 1 of this story, 2020 Year In Review Plus What's New and What's Next for 2021, is available here.
This coming March, WholeFoods Magazine...
What’s a Website For?
Independent natural products retailers seem to intuitively know the daily work they do to help others get and stay well is more important than...
Coronavirus Diary Part II
In June, we published Part I of this series of retailer interviews about the response to the pandemic. Here, we follow up as of...
The Dangers of Success
It may seem counterintuitive, but not once you think about it. Over the last several months I’ve been relieved to be in the natural...
The Coronavirus Open Mind
How hard is it to get your marketing message out—and into someone’s head? Very hard, and very expensive, as you know. Because normally, minds...
The Personal Resilience Opportunity
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated an existing trend: more grocery shopping online. Pre-COVID estimates suggest online grocery was about 4% of U.S. total grocery sales,...
COVID-19 Diary: Retailers, in their own words about what happened.
At their May 19, 2020, meeting, the Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard passed a resolution requiring face coverings to be worn by customers and employees in...
Even Online Commerce Needs Physical Stores
Amazon opened its first Amazon Go Grocery store in Seattle at the end of February, ballooning the size of its “Go” footprint to about...
2020 Retail Insights® Retail Universe for U.S. Premium Natural, Organic Food,...
Mark 2019 as the year natural organic sales momentum shifted from Amazon to Aldi. The German hard discounter has deftly adjusted its assortment to...