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2013 GenX Moms Report from the Produce for Better Health Foundation

The Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) recently concluded their annual meeting and release of their annual GenX Moms tracking report, now in its 5 year of tracking. While the purpose of this report is to track success of PBH efforts to educate and support better fruit and vegetable consumption the report contains a number [...]

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Sprouts Farmers Market Growth: A Threat to Whole Foods

Sprouts Farmers Market is the leading “pure play” high growth, value-priced, specialty food retailer, with a primary offering being farm-fresh produce at an extreme value. Earlier in 2012, Sprouts completed a merger with Sunflower Farmers Market, giving Sprouts the #2 spot in the natural organic retail market, behind Whole Foods Market.  What’s most interesting about [...]

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Big Y: Capturing Value In-Store and at Other Retailers

The Amherst, MA, Big Y store exemplifies some of the major trends RetailNet Group has been tracking recently, including tiered loyalty, personalization, and Health & Wellness. The supermarket demonstrates how introducing more complex loyalty features can lead to a higher degree of personalization and a world where shelf price only matters to the lead loyal [...]

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Retailers to the Health Care Rescue

There has been a lot of discussion of the role and responsibility of retailers in the obesity crisis. Does Walmart make unhealthy food too cheap?  Are American portions too big?  Should retailers be responsible for policing ingredients to discourage unhealthy foods? Solving America’s obesity problems are impossible responsibilities to put on retailers. We have found [...]

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