The Latest Breaking News from Whole Foods

Gone are the days when store brands were the knockoffs no one wanted to admit buying. In 2024, store brands are not only competing with big-name products—they’re outselling them in several categories. Thanks to rising food costs, better quality, and smart packaging, shoppers are flocking to these budget-friendly alternatives. Retailers…

The battle between store brands and national brands has reached a tipping point. For years, private labels were seen as cheap imitations, but today’s shoppers know better. Retailers like Costco, Trader Joe’s, and Target have invested heavily in creating high-quality private label products that rival and, in some cases, even…

Loren Castle, the CEO of Sweet Loren’s, launched the refrigerated cookie dough brand after a cancer diagnosis in her 20s made her re-evaluate her career. Now, it’s stocked in over 35,000 supermarkets.

Store-brand products are often marketed as budget-friendly alternatives to national brands—cheaper, just as tasty, and practically indistinguishable. But not all private label products are created...

Rising grocery bills are hitting everyone’s wallets, but there’s another side to the story that often goes unnoticed: many major retail chains are quietly cutting wages or reducing hours for their employees, even as they hike prices for shoppers. This double whammy affects not just workers, but also families trying…

Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) grocery chief, Jason Buechel, blasted the division's internal bureaucracy as "ridiculous" during a staff meeting last week, saying layers of approvals are stalling efforts to meld Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go into one operation.

The temporary restrictions at UNFI, and the stores it supplies, continue.

A string of recent cyberattacks and data breaches involving the systems of major retailers have started affecting shoppers

United Natural Foods forced to shut down parts of its IT system to contain an ongoing assault.