- by Daniel Granderson
- July 1 2019
- finance
- food and beverage
- food retail
- food retailing
- healthy eating
- money
- money and finance
- natural and organic
- natural foods
- organic
- organic food
- Trader Joe’s
- Whole Foods
Affluent Food Shoppers: Money Isn’t Everything
The sheer volume of spending on food at home by affluent households—which is in excess of $100 billion—makes them an essential consumer segment for food manufacturers, marketers, distributors, and grocers...But, as Packaged Facts reports, it’s not money alone that sets affluent food shoppers apart.
- by Daniel Granderson
- October 2 2017
- Amazon
- food and beverage
- natural and organic
- natural foods
- Trader Joe’s
- Whole Foods
A New Grocery Age Not Just for Natural Grocers
The Amazon/Whole Foods marriage marks the tipping point in a shift that is already underway, with the brick-and-mortar store of the future still alive and well but vastly different as a result of ever sophisticated mobile apps and new-generation brick-plus-click logistics including store remodels.
- by Noah Miller
- September 13 2017
- Amazon
- food retail
- grocery shopping
- natural foods
- Whole Foods
Amazon Online Grocery Sales Surge with Whole Foods Acquisition
Whole Foods’ branded product web sales reached $500,000, after Amazon placed about 2,000 items from Whole Foods’ 365 Everyday Value brand on its site.
- by Daniel Granderson
- August 22 2017
- Amazon
- ecommerce
- food and beverage
- food retail
- online retail
- Whole Foods
Whole Foods and the Transformation of Amazon Fresh
Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods should push product choices higher in relatively short order. And that is just the beginning.
- by Noah Miller
- June 19 2017
- Amazon
- ecommerce
- food retail
- food retailing
- groceries
- grocery shopping
- Whole Foods
With Whole Foods, Amazon Goes for the Grocery Gold
Even before the acquisition, it was hard to escape the sense that time was on Amazon’s side rather than Walmart’s, especially in terms of growth.
- by Daniel Granderson
- October 31 2016
- food research
- food retail
- food retailing
- health food
- healthy eating
- meal kits
- Whole Foods
Whole Foods, Purple Carrot delivering meal kits to retail stores but which consumers will bite?
Based on the number of meal kit delivery services around the country, the current numbers of meal shipments, and the almost certain entry of such services from retailers and food marketers (ahem Whole Foods), Packaged Facts conjectures that the U.S. meal kit delivery services market will generate $1.5 billion in sales by the end of 2016 and will grow to a multi-billion market over the next five years.
- by dgranderson@marketresearch.com
- March 5 2014
- food and beverage
- natural
- organic
- retail
- health food
- Whole Foods
- Trader Joe’s
More than mere supermarkets, Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are health food meccas
Unlike conventional supermarkets, Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s are destinations: places consumers seek out and travel to over long distances. The two chains’ retail strengths echo similar market strategies as they seek to capitalize on growing consumer interest in natural and organic products. In many ways, they also have very similar-and actually often the same-customers. Yet, the striking differences between the two chains are what keep the same consumers shopping at both. At Whole Food...
