Here are suggestions for how retailers can better stock supplements to make them sell and why it works.
Customers at this Los Angeles natural products store are under a spell to improve their health and purchase more products. It's not witchcraft, just a simple tonic bar.
Despite the potential for significant financial gains when switching to more sustainable practices, most supply-chain managers currently do not focus on environmental concerns. According to the EPA, one reason is that cost accounting systems typically hide “environmental costs.”
But suppliers and manufacturers that really want to be green through and through are going farther by reducing their use of resources like electricity, water and materials. This is where sustainable practices can turn a company’s bottom line from red to black—or should we say green?
Carolee Colter explains how Kootenay Co-op took an idea for a promotion and turned it into a new way of life for the community and employees of the store.
America's new crop of farmers is remarkably different than previous generations. More than 75 percent have college degrees, and at least half say that one of their primary goals is to educate people about healthier food.
Delicious Living magazine and iVillage polled 4,900 consumers—90 percent of them women—on everything from how they define “healthy” to their favorite brands. What they found may surprise you.
Each month, NFM's secret shopper heads incognito into a natural products store with a question. The employee's answer—and our expert's evaluation of the response—is reported here. Our aim: To help you improve your store’s customer service.