Kerbside enthusiasm: Sprouts Farmers Market expands popular pickup service
US natural food retailer Sprouts Farmers Market has expanded its grocery pickup service with Instacart to all of its more than 340 stores
Online grocery sales set for ‘phenomenal’ 33% hike in 2020
Online grocery sales in the UK are set to rise by 33% in 2020 as the COVID-19 crisis produces dramatic – and possibly lasting – changes in shopping habits.
Support your indie food stores at this crucial time, Guild of Fine Food urges shoppers
The Guild of Fine Food is calling for consumers to get behind their local independents and has added an online resource to its existing website, to assist these retailers and…
Sweden’s Paradiset to close stores as corona fears hit finance plan
Swedish organic and natural food pioneer Paradiset says its retail business is to close after a refinancing package failed amid economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Planet Organic announces takeover of As Nature Intended
Trailbazing UK health and wellbeing retailer Planet Organic has acquired As Nature Intended, the chain of seven London-based organic and natural food stores.
US organic food retailers fold amid intense supermarket competition
A recent fight back from US natural food retailers, after years of market capture by major grocery operators, came too late for two specialist chains.
Some tea bags shed billions of plastic particles, researchers warn
Some teabags shed billions of micro- and nano-sized plastics, Canadian researchers warned this week.
Marigold Health Foods’ warehouse ‘devastated’ by fire
UK natural food distributor Marigold Health Foods saw its London warehouse badly damaged by fire earlier this week.
Happy and healthy: Chicago retailers partner for store-within-a-store pilot
Two long established family-owned Chicago area retail businesses – fresh market and grocer Angelo Caputo’s and health food store Fruitful Yield – have partnered to create a store-within-a-store experience.
Sprouts Farmers Market hires former 99 Cents Only CEO for top job
US natural food retailer Sprouts Farmers Market has appointed the former chief executive officer of the price-point retailer 99 Cents Only Stores, Jack L Sinclair, as its own CEO.