Retail
Explore the latest retail news in the natural food space in addition to strategies for succeeding in retail stores, optimizing e-commerce, and driving direct-to-consumer sales. Have a better understanding of the latest insights and news impacting your success in each retail channel, whether it’s selling on your own online store, partnering with Amazon, capitalizing on convenience stores or expanding into national retail chains.
Submit Retail News
If you’ve recently launched into a new retailer or have news related to retail, submit your news to our team.
Watch Community Call
For additional retail and e-commerce insights, watch the Community Call video series.
Featured Retail Content
Rivalz Nets $5M, Launches Puff Snack
Rivalz is raising a $5 million investment as the brand launches a Puff product and targets new foodservice and retail opportunities.
Protein Pints Thinks Outside The Carton, Launches Pops
Protein Pints launched a four-SKU line of ice cream pops today, expanding its potential shelf space in the frozen dessert section.
Why Walmart Moved ALOHA From the Nutrition Aisle to Grocery
Nosh spoke with company leaders about what prompted the move, how they’ll measure success and why they believe protein bars are increasingly becoming just another grocery staple.
Additional Content
Instacart Expands With Merchandising Service
Instacart has an eye on improving the grocery industry from all angles. Today, the grocery tech platform launched a new merchandising service for brands known as Store View.
Gut Instincts: Gutzy Organic Riding GLP-1 Trend
Gutzy Organic spent last year raising capital from strategic partners as it retooled its formulation and packaging to chase GLP-1 users and consumers seeking high-protein, gut-health snacks.
Daily Briefing (Insiders Only): Inside the Insurgent Brands Playbook
Several dozen food brands are outpacing category growth and trampling incumbents. As the industry remains challenged by a range of external forces, these companies continue to thrive. Who are they, and how are they doing it?
‘Not Diet Burgers’: Blended Meat Evolves As A Middle Path
Blended meat has struggled to establish a foothold in retail but is seeing foodservice as a path forward as the category sharpens its toward health claims.
Daily Briefing (Insiders Only): How Omnichannel Sales Are Shaping Snacks
First it was snacking as a love language. Now, snack category savant Shauna Golden is diving back in to examine the relationship between the category and an omnichannel strategy.
Santatera Sticks To U.S. CPG Thesis Despite Trade War
Early-stage CPG is a narrow margin, operationally complexity space. Add in the current, on-and-off trade war and any international investment firm would likely press pause on new ventures.
‘Category Is On Fire’: Meat Snack Makers Go Deeper In Sticks
Meat snack makers are leaning deeper into sticks as better-for-you brands grow distribution out of natural and into other retail channels.
Dress It Up Launches Two SKUs, Backed By New Funding
A slow and steady growth strategy is Dress It Up Dressing’s secret sauce as it works to capture the “sleepy” salad dressing category, said founder and CEO Sophia Maroon.
DTC Meal Kit Brands Find Second Act in Retail Expansion
A decade ago, direct-to-consumer meal kit subscription services like Blue Apron and HelloFresh had blanketed the market with a strong pitch to consumers centering on convenience, wellness and quality ready-to-cook food they could have shipped to their doorsteps. During the pandemic, many of these brands saw big lifts and even bigger valuations as consumers stuck at home decided to try their hand at home cooking.
Daily Briefing (Insiders Only): Gearing Up For Slow-Growing Grocery
The grocery industry is gearing up for a slow year as retailers across all channels – including natural, discount, mass, conventional and even third-parties like Instacart – project a deceleration in sales throughout the course of 2025.