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UPDATE: Whole Foods to Open 2 New Small-Format Daily Shops in NYC This Spring

[Update as of April 24, 2025] Whole Foods Market has announced the opening dates for two new Daily shops, the grocer’s new…

How Emotional Insights Transform Your CX Strategy

When building a house, you start with a blueprint. Similarly, creating a meaningful customer experience begins with a map — a tool…

Whole Foods CEO to Lead all of Amazon Grocery

Whole Foods Market CEO Jason Buechel has taken on an expanded role at Amazon and will now lead the company’s Worldwide Grocery…

Has Amazon Finally Cracked the Code for Grocery Retailing?

In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside…

Amazon Tests out (Another) New Grocery Format

Whole Foods is beloved for its focus on natural, healthy products, but it can be limiting. That’s why Whole Foods’ owner Amazon…

Whole Foods Expands Food Waste Reduction Efforts with New App Integration

Whole Foods Market has announced a nationwide partnership with Too Good To Go, a marketplace dedicated to finding distribution channels for surplus…

The Bouqs Company is Blooming in 3 California Whole Foods Stores

Direct-to-consumer floral delivery company The Bouqs Co. is popping up in three Whole Foods Market stores throughout California to give local customers…

In the Fight for Mutual Survival, DTC and Retailers are Frenemies

Both DTC brands and traditional retailers have seen better days. Unsurprisingly, major retailers always have struggled to keep up with how, where…

The Great Small-Format Store Experiment – Brand Boon or Bust for Retailers?

In today’s dynamic retail landscape, characterized by shifting consumer behaviors and evolving preferences, the traditional approach to real estate and store formats…

Walmart+ Members will Get First Dibs on New Products During 24-Hour Event

From 12 noon ET on Monday, April 29 through noon on April 30, the Walmart+ Early Access online sales event will offer…

Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

[Update as of 4/17/2024] In a blog post clarifying its strategy around cashierless technology, Dilip Kumar, VP of AWS Applications at Amazon,…

Whole Foods ‘Paves the Way’ for Urban Expansion with New Small-Format Store

Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market has unveiled a new, smaller-format store concept that, at about one-quarter of the size of the chain’s typical…

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