Lost in the Supermarket
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Expert food industry analyst and journalist, Phil Lempert, has candid conversations about what’s in your food, what you should and shouldn’t be buying and eating, how food companies can better serve shoppers and stay ahead of the trends, what effect the food and agriculture world is having on our planet, and more.
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May 2, 2023
Food Retailers & Brands Using AI to Gain Sales
Today, Phil talks with Russ Morton, Mary Ginder and Tracy Frey to discuss Constant Contact’s AI Content Generator and how this technology can be used for food and grocery retailers to automate the copy drafting process for email, text and social media marketing campaigns.
*Russ Morton, Chief Product Officer at Constant Contact - *As chief product officer, Russ Morton leads Constant Contact’s product roadmap and user experience initiatives, leveraging new and innovative technologies to build the marketing tools of the future for small businesses and nonprofits.
*Mary Ginder, Owner of Gindo's Spice of Life - *Mary and Chris Ginder co-own Gindo's Spice of Life, a small business based in St. Charles, Ill. that produces handcrafted hot sauces and spice blends.
*Tracy Frey, Market Manager at Williamsburg Farmers Market - *As Market Manager, Tracy oversees all the planning and operations for the Williamsburg Farmers Market, which operates 44 weeks a year on Saturday mornings.
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Apr 12, 2023
The Evolution of Food Broker to Food Marketer
John Carroll is Acosta Group President, Digital Commerce + Advanced Analytics. John has more than 30 years of experience in CPG, food and beverage and has held senior leadership positions in brand, sales, commercial, e-commerce and operations. Before joining Acosta in 2020 (then as chief growth officer) he was with The Coca-Cola Company for nearly 25 years and before that, P&G. John is here with us today to discuss some of the big topics for brands and retailers.
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Apr 6, 2023
Unilever's Quest To Fix the Food System
Hanneke Faber is the Global President of the Nutrition Business Group at Unilever, with sales of over 13 billion and sales in more than 150 countries. She is also a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive Committee. She has been recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the most influential international women in business.
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Mar 28, 2023
Regenerative Agriculture and Its Role in Nutrition
Welcome to Lost in the Supermarket. March is national nutrition month so who better to talk than a farmer and passionate chef about regenerative agriculture and its role in nutrition.
Farmer Lee Jones created The Chef’s Garden’s over thirty-five years ago, and has remained tirelessly committed to not only ensuring that the family’s three-hundred-acre farm remains one of the most innovative and pioneering in the world, but to fostering a nuanced conversation with the chefs in our industry who look to the farm to grow vegetables that are as aesthetically pleasing on the plate as they are flavorful to the palate.
Dr. Amy Sapola is passionate about helping people achieve radiant health through reconnecting with their own intuition, nature, and deep nourishment as well as working on public health issues related to the social determinants of health, soil health, and planetary health. She is a Certified Wellness Coach, Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and Doctor of Pharmacy with a B.S. in Nutrition. Dr. Sapola is the Director of Farmacy at The Chef’s Garden.
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Mar 21, 2023
A New Digital Chef Community Brings Excitement to Recipes
Brad Sive is a media marketing executive who has a passion for learning about new foods, not just the enjoyment of food, but how food cooking and recipes intersect and bring people together. This passion led him to start Public Market with a team of longtime friends, a place where food, people and culture have become one. The core belief behind Public Market is that life's most meaningful moments happen when humans and food intersect.
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Mar 14, 2023
A High School Senior Is Helping Food Communities
Sophie Sajnani is a young leader in the tech industry. During the pandemic, she heard about how Uber Eats and other food apps were taking a large cut of the restaurant's profits and how that was hurting restaurants. On that same day, she launched Bellevue Bites, a free and promotional platform that chairs deals from local restaurants when customers ordered directly from them rather than through a third party app. She has since hosted Five Food Crawls in two cooking classes in the US and Canada to raise over $15,000 for restaurants and other important causes. As she enters her last year of high school, she continues to explore how technology can be used for social good.
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Mar 8, 2023
A New Generation of Labor Causes
Today we are joined by Jon Melrod and Tyler Daguerre
Jon Melrod was born into the political and cultural quiescence of the 1950's and grew up in apartheid-like Washington DC. Active in the student movement that opposed the Vietnam War and a supporter of black liberation, Jon embraced the ideology that the working class held the power to radically transform society. He left the campus for the factory in 1973. For thirteen years, he immersed himself in the day-to-day struggles of Milwaukee’s working class, both on the factory floor and in the political arena. Despite FBI surveillance and interference, Jon organized a militant rank-and-file caucus and rose through union ranks to a top leadership position in UAW Local 72. After a mass workforce cutback imposed by AMC’s joint venture partner Renault, he left to attend Hastings college of the law in San Francisco in 1985. Graduating cum laude with a JD, he opened a law firm in San Francisco successfully representing hundreds of political refugees. Jon is also the author of the soon-to-be-released book, Fighting Times (September 27, 2022)– PM Press, ISBN 1629639656
Tyler Daguerre is a Law School Graduate, barista and Organizer with Starbucks Workers United in Massachusetts.
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Jan 25, 2023
The Truth Behind Meal Kits: From the Person Who Started It All
One of the most talked about trends in the food world for the past few years has been meal kits. We’ve seen them come and go. We’ve been emailed offers to get 10 free meals. We’ve opened up the box and shook our heads in dismay at all the wasted packaging that it took to get these meals to us. Today we get to the truth about meal kits.
Jackie Keller is one of the visionaries who imagined meal kits as a solution back in 1987 – decades before meal kits were a ‘thing’. She’s going to tell us the truth and help us peer into the future. Jackie Keller is the Founding Director of NutriFit, LLC, and TxokoUSA, a dining experiences company. She is also a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach with a specialty designation in Health and Wellness and is the author of Body After Baby: The Simple 30-Day Plan to Lose Your Baby Weight Fast, and is a nationally recognized health and nutrition educator, and Le Cordon Bleu-trained culinary expert.
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Dec 14, 2022
Pitch Produce to Any Media Platform
Creating true omni-channel shopper engagement in the produce department requires touchpoints along the entire path-to-purchase, and these touchpoints have changed over the past three years. Join RDBA CEO, Phil Lempert and his guest Bonnie Taub-Dix, registered dietitian, media pro, and California Strawberry Commission spokesperson, as they discuss how working with media outlets has changed and how to effectively partner to drive produce sales.
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Oct 18, 2022
Hy-Vee's Personalized Vitamin Innovation
Today we're gonna talk about vitamins. We're gonna talk about supplements, and we're gonna talk about a retailer who's really changing the way we're gonna be consuming our foods forever. With me, Elisa Sloss, senior VP of Health Markets and dietitians at Hy-vee. She oversees the sales, merchandising, and educational efforts of the company's more than 190 health market departments. It's a store within a store concept that features a strong and varied selection of organic products, specialty foods, all of what's designed to help support customers' dietary needs and health conditions. She also leads the company's team of retail dietitians whose mission it is to support customers in their health journey.
Hy-Vee's dietitians support thousands of customers through store tours, virtual and in-person dietitian sessions and meal prep classes and workshops to help customers find foods and products to support their unique health goals. The team also offers routine health screenings for customers and employers, including biometric and cholesterol screenings and free A1C screenings.
Also, joining us is Angie Nelson, a pharmacist and senior VP of Pharmacy at Hy-Vee. She's been with Hy-Vee over 20 years and began working as a registered pharmacist and over the years promoted to pharmacy manager, store director, pharmacy supervisor, vice president of pharmacy operations, and now the senior VP of Pharmacy. You can't get any higher except, you know, CEO. Now, Angie's helped implement artificial intelligence technology and machine learning models across Hy-vee's pharmacy space to improve patient adherence. And she's been named one of Progressive Grocers top women in grocery, twice. A drugstore news top women in health, wellness and beauty, and one of mass market retailers Most influential Women. She's also a member of the Hy-vee Hall of Fame.
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Oct 13, 2022
2022 Food Trends with Nora Minno
Nora Minno is an award-winning registered dietitian and certified personal trainer based in New York, NY. Over the past 10 years, Nora has built a reputation in the fitness and nutrition space as a credible expert developing communications and marketing strategies for top CPG companies, professional sports teams, global health apps, and leading healthcare groups. Her work, writing, and advice have been featured in national outlets including The Today Show, Women's Health, Health Magazine, and Well + Good and she appears regularly as a trainer on Daily Burn’s Emmy-nominated show DB365.
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Oct 4, 2022
Behind the Scenes of the Produce Department
Welcome to Lost in the Supermarket. Whether you're a shopper or whether you're the CEO of a major food company or a retail organization, the number one concern that everybody has when you walk in a supermarket, it's about the produce department. Think about it for a moment. What you've got is you've got these fabulous colors, you've got this great aroma. Basically it's putting you in a great mood for a great shopping experience. So today I'm really thrilled to have with us Chris Jorgenson. Not only is Chris one of the state of the art produce managers in the nation, but he just won the International Fresh Produce Association Produce Manager Award of the year.
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Sep 28, 2022
Making Oatmeal Sexy Again
Mylk Labs is a woman & minority-owned food start-up based in California. Born out of the need for convenience, founder Grace Cheng created a better-for-you oatmeal cup that uses only 4-6 ingredients, a lot less sugar and no added flavors-- ever.
Grace Cheng is a fashion model, first-time entrepreneur, and founder of Mylk Labs. Juggling two different career paths, Grace emphasizes the importance of eating healthy on the go and using the knowledge gained as a USC Alumna, she's now sharing her secret go-to breakfast while traveling the world as the face of many prestigious brands.
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May 31, 2022
World Oceans Day with Chef Barton Seaver
It was about a month or so ago at the RDBA virtual experience that I met our next guest. Chef Barton Seaver is a seafood expert. World Oceans Day is coming up in just a few days from now. So I couldn't think of a better person to talk to about sustainability, about seafood and with the background, that chef Barton has.
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Apr 20, 2022
The Global Ag Impact from Current Events
Our food supply is in the headlines every day – as prices soar, shortages increase and a war 6,000 miles away has the head of the U.N. Food Programme predicting that it’ll get even worse. U.S. farmers are working hard to establish a safe and secure food supply domestically while climate change is creating new challenges every day. One of our core crops comes from the hard work of our US soy farmers; so I invited Mac Marshall from the United Soybean Board to give us the lowdown. Mac serves as the Vice President, Market Intelligence for the United Soybean Board (USB) and U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC). His background includes serving as a staff economist at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics with a focus on agriculture commodities. Mac serves as an industry source of market information and analysis here and globally. I can think of no one better to give us the real take about what’s going on.
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Apr 11, 2022
Unwrapping The Current Realities of Food Packaging
Food packaging is in the news. Over the past year, there have been more than 250,000 news reports about food packaging. Topics including edible packaging, eco-friendly packaging, phthalates, and single-use plastics are creating headlines and generating interest. This webcast and podcast is designed to help retail RDs cut through the headlines and gain clearer understanding about food packaging benefits and risks related to food safety, health threats, food waste, environmental impact and more. During this segment, David Smith offers an overview of the current food packaging industry and highlights some of the most common misconceptions. David also provides insights into the myriad of challenges food companies face when evaluating packaging choices, such as compatibility with food ingredients, material sourcing, integration into food processing, food protection/safety, consumer perception, recycling, and reuse.
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Mar 17, 2022
The Role of Processed Foods in a Safe, Healthy and Sustainable Food System
Throughout history, food processing has played a critical role in building a safe, accessible, healthy and sustainable food system. More recently, there has been growing criticism and confusion among health professionals, researchers and media regarding the benefits associated with the consumption of processed foods, especially against the evolving scientific discourse around ultra-processed foods.
During this podcast episode, Phil Lempert interviews food scientist Eric Decker, Phd, about the historical role processed foods have played to ensure we have a safe, accessible, healthy and sustainable food system. Dr. Decker describes the benefits and techniques of food processing and highlight how it can improve compliance to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Lastly, Dr. Decker shares insights that retail dietitians can use when communicating with consumers about processed foods.
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Mar 16, 2022
Aquaculture Expands to Brooklyn and Can Change the Way we Eat
Today, we're gonna talk about the future. We're gonna talk about indoor farming. We're gonna talk about aquaculture. And with me is Jason Green, the CEO and co-founder of Upward Farms based in Brooklyn, New York, and a breakthrough vertical farming company who brings whole ecosystems into controlled environmental agriculture, through aquaponic farming of leafy greens, fish, and a robust and beneficial microbiome. Back in 2013, Jason and his partners started upward farms. They were the only large scale vertical farm that offers locally grown, washed, and ready to eat USDA certified organic leaf greens and best aquaculture practices, certified fish upward farm grows and packs superior quality microgreens that are bursting with delicious flavor and nutrients that are best selling products at whole foods.
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Mar 2, 2022
Digital Tools and Data Science for Agriculture
Microsoft and Bayer recently announced a strategic partnership to build a new cloud-based set of digital tools and data science solutions for use across the food and agriculture sector. These new capabilities will be available to businesses – from startups to global enterprises – to accelerate innovation, boost efficiency and support sustainability across food value chains. Through this partnership Bayer will work with Microsoft to co-develop new solutions that address critical industry scenarios such as farming operations, sustainable sourcing, manufacturing and supply chain improvement, as well as ESG monitoring and measurement. In this session, representatives from Bayer and Microsoft will share more about the new partnership and how it's poised to benefit food, agriculture and adjacent industries.
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Mar 2, 2022
Decarbonization and Farming
Decarbonization is key when it comes to combating climate change, and agriculture plays a major role in it. To support farmers in driving sustainability across the entire value chain, Bayer collaborates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Bushel in Project Carbonview – a data solution that will help ethanol producers in the United States report, analyze and assess their end-to-end supply chain carbon footprint. This new solution marks the latest development by Bayer – who is working to build a portfolio of farmer-facing programs to complement our existing Bayer Carbon Initiative, a program which incentivizes the adoption of climate-smart practices, creating new revenue streams for growers who use technology to keep carbon in the soil – and out of the atmosphere.. Join Max Dougherty- Carbon Business Development Lead for Bayer- Crop Science as he chats carbon, farming, and what this could mean for the value chain.
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Mar 2, 2022
Conversation with “Broc-Star” Jenny Maloney
Have you ever thought about how plant breeding can help mitigate food waste, improve sustainability, and improve flavor? These are a few things plant breeders think about when creating new varieties of some of your favorite produce. Bayer's High Rise™ Broccoli series has been 20 years in the making. Developed in collaboration with growers, the High Rise broccoli series offers supply chain-wide benefits from field to store to table.
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Mar 2, 2022
Greenhouse Growing with Megan Dickens, The Future of Food is Now
The Future of Food is Now. The Bayer Marana, AZ site is a smart greenhouse facility aimed at driving tailored solutions for the future of agriculture. This site focuses on seed production and agricultural innovation, leveraging the latest in automation to optimize plant density and workflow. Join us as Megan Dickens provides a short virtual tour and dives into sustainability practices and how research taking place now shapes the future of agriculture.
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Dec 13, 2021
Grocery E-commerce Transformation Is Essential For Survival
Today we talk digital commerce. It’s the focus of every grocery retailer – from one store operations to the largest chains with thousands of stores. Here’ to give us an update and a look into the future is Barry Clogan, Chief Product Officer at Wynshop / Mi9 Retail a retail veteran with 20+ years of experience working internationally in retail, grocery, and extensively in e-commerce. In his previous role as President at MyWebGrocer, Barry helped the world’s largest grocers launch online grocery services and execute their multichannel strategies. Before joining MyWebGrocer, Barry spent five years at Tesco, where he led the rollout of the world’s largest online grocery business across eight international markets.
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Nov 30, 2021
Halla Offers Personalized Grocery Curation and Prediction
Technology, technology technology. It's all that the grocery industry is thinking about. How to increase efficiencies better than the shopper experience and create bigger basket size today. My guest is Spencer Price co-founder and CEO of Halla. Halla is the taste intelligence company and creator of the only human preference engine that's designed for grocery. Its tastes intelligence uses AI to redefine personalization and to predict what individual shoppers will actually want to buy next in real time.
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Nov 2, 2021
Addressing Ingredient Misinformation: A Look at MSG
The growing belief among consumers that nutritious foods are only those made with minimal, easy-to-pronounce ingredients presents a new challenge and educational opportunity for retail professionals: demonstrate that all of our food is chemically composed and ingredients like monosodium glutamate (MSG) – unfamiliar as they may sound – can be safe and offer real health and flavor benefits. This episode takes a deep dive into MSG's history, science, and benefits (like sodium reduction) as a way to equip retail professionals with the facts and support educated food decisions.
*References*
* MSG Safety, Facts and Science (KnowMSG.com)
* MSG and Sodium Reduction: Research and Resources (KnowMSG.com)
* Guidance for Industry: Voluntary Sodium Reduction Goals (FDA)
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Sep 24, 2021
AI Comes To Fresh
My guest today is Matt Schwartz , the CEO and co-founder of Afresh, an AI technology company, that builds solutions specifically for the complexity of fresh food to radically reduce food waste. One of our nation's biggest problems and multiply groceries profitability, and make fresh nutrient dense food accessible for everyone. He started Afresh, because his deep experience working in food led them to believe that improving the food system is our single best path to improving human and environmental health.
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Sep 14, 2021
Google Wants To Go Food Shopping
My guest today is Kevin Brown CEO and the co-founder of Innit. Now, Kevin has more than 20 years experience in food tech, search security and cloud sectors, and wants to announce a new partnership that they have. That's really going to change the way we think about grocery shopping. There's no question that during the pandemic we've had a lot of retailers invest in a lot of technology. And to be honest with you, the reality is that some of the retailers have thrown away a lot of money because they just haven't really looked at what that customer experience is all about.
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Jun 17, 2021
A Plant-Based CEO Reveals the Secrets to Success
Brad Charron is CEO of Aloha, an employee-owned and operated company committed to making the healthiest, best-tasting plant-based protein products on the planet. A classically trained CPG operator, Brad has worked on powerful entrepreneurial brands including Chobani, Under Armour and KIND Snacks.
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Apr 22, 2021
Everything You Need To Know About Your Gut Health
Today with me is Kimberly Griffith, a Clinical Research Partner for Thryve. She is also a microbiome researcher and Functional Medicine nutritionist that uses science-based, individualized approaches to promote optimal wellness for each individual. Her persistent focus within lifestyle medicine application and research is firmly founded within the microbial community, understanding health effects from gut, skin, oral and vaginal dysbiosis and how best to optimize each biome for ideal health and wellness. Kimberly is a board Certified Nutrition Specialist and holds a Masters of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, alongside continual education within microbiome research.
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Apr 13, 2021
A Look Through the Lens of a Serial Food Entrepreneur
One of my favorite topics to discuss on Lost in the Supermarket is innovation in our food world and to interview those insightful game changers. On today's episode, we have Keith Belling, CEO and Co-Founder of Right Rice. Keith is one of those innovators who look just a little bit differently at our foods which opens up a whole new way of looking at our grocery stores.
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Mar 30, 2021
From Pot Pies to a Top 50 US Brand
Phil Lempert Interviews Amy's Kitchen co-founders Rachel and Andy Berliner. Started in 1987, Amy’s, for the first time, was named one of the Top 50 Brands in the U.S. in the Prophet Brand Relevance Index based on a survey of 13,000 consumers. Join us as we discuss the past, present and future for Amy's.
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Mar 22, 2021
Nice Cream Ice Cream
SupermarketGuru and RDBA CEO interviews co-founders and best friends Hannah Hong and Mollie Cha from Must Love, a modern-day non-dairy ice cream brand.
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Feb 16, 2021
Regenerative Farming and Your Food Future
Today, we're going to talk about regenerative farming, which is a rehabilitative approach to agriculture that focuses on top soil regeneration, improving the water cycle enhancing ecosystem services, increasing resilience to climate change and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil with me is the CEO co-founder of Nutrition for Longevity, Jennifer Maynard.
Jennifer worked in the biotech and pharmaceutical specialty medicine areas for over 20 years. After putting two decades of her passion into changing people's lives through modern medicine, she felt her knowledge and experience would be better served focusing on food as medicine. The term that we hear a lot of these days, even though progress has been made with medicine, the battle with chronic illness is being lost. In order to address this, she founded greeter greens or regenerative organic farm as the first step to bring this movement front and center and to help focus on the root of our health challenges. Once the far…
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Feb 11, 2021
Thoughts From A Food Product Developer
Adam Melonas is the Founder & CEO of Chew, a food innovation lab that boldly redefines what is possible in the world of packaged food and drink by creating products that are delicious, nutritious, sustainable, profitable, and scalable. Through his work and “anything is possible” mindset, Adam and the team partner with the world’s largest food and beverage manufacturers to overcome barriers to innovation by creating game-changing snack food and beverage items.
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Jan 19, 2021
Talking to Consumers About Shopping on a Budget
During this unprecedented time in our lives, you are probably seeing more customers shopping your stores who are concerned about how much they are spending on groceries. Retail dietitians can provide guidance to these shoppers while offering solutions for purchasing foods that will deliver the most nutrition for their money. It is important, however, to make sure communications are respectful, positive and meaningful. Join us as we talk with Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company in the world, to discuss how they develop products that deliver taste, nutrition and value to today’s shoppers and their recommendations and resources for connecting with budget-minded customers.
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Dec 2, 2020
A Company That Offers Fresh Healthier Foods Can Be A Success
Mike Wystrach is co-founder and CEO of Freshly, a weekly subscription service delivering healthy and fully prepared meals directly to customers’ doorsteps.
•Freshly is a weekly subscription service delivering fresh, chef-cooked meals that can be heated and served in 3 minutes directly to customers' doors. All that is needed is a microwave, fork and plate to get a satisfying lunch or dinner on the table.
•Between August 2019 and summer 2020 the company grew from delivering 600,000 weekly meals in the U.S. to well over 1 million
•In April 2020, the company launched Freshly for Business
•In October 2020 the company was acquired by Nestle for up to $1.5 billion – Nestle had already been an investor
•Customers can get meals as cheap as $8.49 per meal
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Nov 19, 2020
What To Expect In Grocery Stores This Thanksgiving
Today its all about Thanksgiving – and what we can expect to find in our grocery stores and what we will be serving during this year’s very unconventional celebration of our foods.
With me to figure out the 2020 version of Thanksgiving is, Stephanie Schultz, MSM, RDN, CD, who is leading the charge among those changing what it means to be a dietitian in a grocery company. ... In her first five years with Festival Foods, Schultz built a traditional retail dietitian program and took on food safety and regulatory management. She was the first winner of the Retail Dietitians Business Alliance RD of the Year Award, and frankly just one of the smartest and nicest people I know.
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Nov 1, 2020
Why Food Retailers Need To Embrace AI
On Today's Lost in the Supermarket episode, Phil talks with Jason Hosking, CEO & Co-Founder of Hivery, The worlds first category management optimization solution.
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Aug 7, 2020
What The Grocery World Looks Like Post-Covid
In today's episode Phil interviews Nick Nikitas, CEO and co-founder of Rosie. Rosie is a locally focused e-commerce company where shoppers can find and discover anything they might want to buy from local stores.
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Jul 9, 2020
The Farming & Manufacturing of Flaxseed & How to Get a New Product On Shelf
In this episode, Phil interviews, sisters and co-founders, Mary Ekman and Julie Faber of Manitoba Milling Company. Mary and Julie share more about their family flaxseed company, the farming and manufacturing of flaxseed, plus advice for retail RDs in getting new products on store shelves.
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Jun 15, 2020
Bumble Bee's New Seafood Sustainability Initiative
June is World Oceans Month, a global movement to call on world leaders to protect 30% of our blue planet by 2030 – a focus on conservation and sustainability. Jan Tharp, the CEO of the Bumble Bee Seafood Company joins me to discuss their leadership and how seafood sustainability is evolving.
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May 21, 2020
Putting Juice Back on the Aisle
During these uncertain times, shopper interest in making healthy choices at the grocery store is heightened as is their focus on shelf-stable products. One hundred percent juice is a nutrient-dense drink and a popular pantry or refrigerator staple with a long shelf life. Research shows drinking 100% juice is a cost-effective way to meet fruit and vegetable goals, while also delivering significant nutrients and improving diet quality. Nonetheless, many misperceptions exist about 100% fruit juice's role in eating habits, and its impact on overall health including body composition and weight. What does the science really say? During this podcast, Diane Welland, MS, RD, and Director of Nutrition Communication for Juice Products Association will address common consumer myths and why it’s time to recommend shoppers but juice back on the table.
*Presenter Bio*: Diane Welland, is a registered dietitian and Director of Nutrition Communications for Kellen Company, a global association managem…
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May 20, 2020
Honing Media Skills for Retail RDs
*Speaker:* Mary Ellen Phipps
Mary Ellen is the founder and registered dietitian behind Milk and Honey Nutrition. Mary Ellen has been living with type 1 diabetes since she was five years old, and she knows firsthand the impact food has on how we think, feel, act and move. She strives to make food easy and fun again for people with type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune conditions; and uses both her professional expertise and personal experience to reduce stress and fear around food, and help people find joy in the kitchen again. Mary Ellen is also a contributing writer, recipe developer and content expert for several leading health and wellness organizations. And you can find her frequently on local Houston-area TV stations educating audiences on food, nutrition, and joyful eating.
*Overview:*
In this episode, Phil interviews media expert, Mary Ellen Phipps, MS, RDN of @milknhoneynutrition. They give expert advice for retail RDs on how to improve their on-camera media skills. You’l…
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Apr 20, 2020
Food Rx Programs: A Prescription for Success at Retailer?
Food prescription programs are a growing trend across the retail industry, promoting produce through partnerships with health care and non-profit organizations. During this podcast, Jillian Griffith MSPH, RDN, LDN, In-store Nutritionist at Giant and Lorena Kaplen, RDN, LDN, West Regional Dietitian for H-E-B will discuss their retailers’ experiences with food prescription programs. Hosted by RDBA Executive Director Annette Maggi, MS, RDN, LD, FAND, topics discussed will include funding strategies and partnerships, retail logistics for program implementation, scalability and longevity of programs, and the value of food Rx programs.
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Mar 25, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About High Vitamin D Mushrooms
On today's episode Phil interviews
Vitamin D is critical to your overall health and is a major contributor to the immune system. And while receiving the right amount of vitamin D comes with a fair share of benefits, a lack of this important nutrient can mean bad things for your customers.
At Monterey Mushrooms, we expose our “high vitamin D” mushrooms to a precise wavelength of ultraviolet light within the UV spectrum. Naturally occurring ergosterol (previtamin-D) within the mushrooms is converted to ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) once exposed to UV light. Monterey
Mushrooms high vitamin D mushrooms provide 400 IUs (10 mcg) which is 50% DV per serving. A serving is about 5 medium mushrooms - so eating just 10 mushrooms a day gives you 100% of FDA’s daily value recommendation of vitamin D.
Cooking with mushrooms specially labeled “High Vitamin D” is one of the easiest ways to add this important vitamin to your customer’s diet. Mushrooms make a terrific complement to many me…
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Mar 9, 2020
How a New Apple is Born
Rave®, Jazz®, Cosmic Crisp® - you’ve probably noticed the rise in creative names (and flavors) arriving in supermarkets to shake up the apple category. But, do you know how a new apple is born? From patents and propagation to countless tests and trials, learn all about how a new apple is born in this episode of Lost in the Supermarket!
*Rob Blakey, R&D Manager at Stemilt*
Rob is the research and development manager for Stemilt, a family-owned company and leading grower-packer-shipper of apples, pears, cherries, stone fruits, and organics. Originally from South Africa, Rob earned his PhD in avocado post-harvest physiology. He worked at Westfalia Fruit in South Africa and in the UK as a horticultural researcher in avocados, before moving to Washington State in 2016. At Stemilt, Rob manages R&D activities and new variety programs.
*Brianna Shales, Senior Marketing Manager at Stemilt*
Brianna is the senior marketing manger at Stemilt. She joined Stemilt’s marketing team after ea…
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Jan 28, 2020
Managing Food Intolerances while Grocery Shopping
Today’s topic is about food intolerance, an issue that impacts about 20% of people around the globe.
Kate Scarlata, MPH, RDN, LDN is a registered, licensed dietitian with a nutrition consultation business in Medway, Massachusetts. She has 30 years’ experience providing nutrition consultation to patients with irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease. Ms. Scarlata is considered a global expert in the low FODMAP diet and food intolerance. She is an invited speaker to numerous conferences in the US and abroad. Kate is a New York Times Best Selling author for her co-authored book, 21 Day Tummy Diet, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Well with IBS and co-author of The low FODMAP Diet Step by Step. Ms. Scarlata earned her B.S. in Nutrition from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and her MPH at the University of Massachusetts. She was awarded the Outstanding Dietitian of the Year by the Massachusetts Dietetic Association and voted Boston…
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Jan 22, 2020
Emerging Science for the First 1,000 Days: Knowledge Gaps and RD Opportunities
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the most active period of neurologic development occurs in the first 1,000 days of life. For the first time, the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans will consider neurocognitive health and development through all life stages as well as comprehensive dietary guidance for women during pregnancy and infants and toddlers under 2 years of age. As the body of science grows, the critical nature of key nutrients during the first 1,000 days will become an area of increasing importance for health professionals to address. However, despite this exciting momentum, research reveals a concerning knowledge gap amongst key practitioners, obstetricians, and pediatricians as well as mothers when it comes to key nutrients such as choline and lutein. The objective of this podcast is to explore the cutting-edge science on diet and neurocognition for the first 1,000 and address opportunities for education amongst health professionals and relevant patient po…
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Nov 12, 2019
TAKE A HEALTHY STAND™ AND THE PRODUCE DEPARTMENT IS NATURE’S PHARMACY™
Grocery shoppers have more on their plates than ever. They’re time-pressed and focused on convenience and health for their families. They’re also looking for simple solutions and sustainability AND they don’t want to give up great taste.
During this podcast, registered dietitian nutritionist Megan Roosevelt, founder and CEO of Healthy Grocery Girl®, and John Chamberlain, Vice President of Marketing at Limoneira, introduce you to “Take a Healthy Stand.” This program is designed to assist retailers in meeting all these shopper needs. This fast-paced podcast also addresses produce as nature’s pharmacy.
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Oct 16, 2019
Popchips Founder Moves into Plant Based
A chat with Keith Belling, Founder of popchips on his latest venture into the plant based world - the challenges and the rewards of creating new food products in today's grocery stores.
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Oct 7, 2019
A Fresh Perspective on Dinner
All industries have experienced change at a breakneck pace throughout the past decade. Digital technology has changed the way Americans live, shop and eat. Food may seem impenetrable to these forces — no matter what, people still need to eat.* * Join us as we speak with Tara-Ann Dugan, Director of Consumer & Marketplace Insights at National Pork Board on food trends. Tara has held roles at McDonald’s Corporate and IRI, working with Tyson, and will be sharing NPB’s new foundational research study executed amongst thousands of consumers uncovering key usage behaviors, attitudes and drivers when getting dinner on the table. You’ll hear about:
· Changing consumer needs
· 9 dinner occasions identified in the new Dinner at Home in America Research
· What contributes to the dinner choices Americans make
· What shopping habits are leading to those choices
· How has plant-based impacted the pork category
· Perceptions of pork and meat and what it means for Retail
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Aug 20, 2019
Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner
What brings in more dollars than any other item in the grocery store?* Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. In this edition of Lost in the Supermarket, Phil Lempert speaks with Bridget Wasser, Executive Director, Meat Science & Supply Chain Outreach at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff. Bridget talks about today’s beef demand, why grocers feature beef in circulars and apps (hint: it drives total store sales) and the hot topic of plant-based meat substitutes.
*IRI Panel Data, All Outlets, 52 weeks ending 1/6/19, Market Basket Study, February 2019.
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Aug 13, 2019
Hy-Vee Sets Pace in Retail Health and Wellness: An Interview with Leadership
Hy-Vee was the first company to name a Vice President of Retail Dietetics, and recently created a Group Vice President role overseeing health markets. In this podcast, hear from Elisa Sloss, RD, Group Vice President of Health Markets, and Stacey Loftus, RD, LD, and Julie McMillin, RD, LD, Assistant Vice Presidents, Retail Dietetics on how the company is setting the pace in retail health and wellness, what drives company support of programming, and how leaders like them find work-life balance in the high-pressure retail environment. Hosted by Annette Maggi, MS, RDN, LD, FAND, Executive Director of the Retail Dietitians Business Alliance.
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Jul 12, 2019
A Transparent Harvest – Sourcing U.S. soybeans for Tofu Production
Almost half of U.S. land is devoted to farming, and soybeans are the largest crop grown on U.S. soil, surpassing corn for the very first time. As the demand for clean labels and clean ingredients sourced from the U.S. continues to rise, transparency in food and farming is no longer optional, it’s expected. Follow along as we discuss full transparency in soybean production, practices and the creation of soy-based products, like tofu.
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Apr 11, 2019
Mushrooms: Healthy on the Plate, Gentle on the Planet
DYK researchers have called mushrooms “one of the most sustainably produced foods in the United States?” The mighty mushroom is both healthy on the plate and gentle on the planet. In today’s episode of Lost in the Supermarket, Phil Lempert interviews Heather Harter from the Mushroom Council and Gale Ferranto, lifelong mushroom grower from Buona Foods, to get a behind the scenes look at mushroom’s unique growing process and discuss their sustainability.
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Mar 5, 2019
Communicating Health & Wellness in Non-foods Categories
As the leading wellness experts in grocery, retail dietitians are now being charged with expanding health & wellness guidance to non-food categories. But for many of us, giving advice on better choices in health & beauty care, supplements, and even pet food can be challenging. In this podcast, Monica Amburn, MS, RD, LDN, Sr. Director of Health & Wellness with healthyAisles® will discuss the biggest wellness trends in these non-food categories, and how dietitians can best address these trends, responsibly, with shoppers. As a companion to the podcast, this list of resources provides more information about controversial ingredients in non-food categories:US Government ResourcesToxtown: Environmental Health Concerns and Toxic Chemicals Where You Live, Work and PlayCDC National Biomonitoring ProgramFDA Cosmetic Products and Ingredients Special Interest GroupsEnvironmental Working Group Skin Deep Cosmetics DatabaseCampaign for Safe Cosmetics
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Mar 5, 2019
Today’s Nutrition Challenges
The majority of today’s consumers are seeking healthy foods, but many admit that finding healthful options is difficult. During this podcast, Brian Hannigan, Sr. Marketing Director of Innovation Strategy at PepsiCo and Jessica Jones, MS, RDN, CDE, from Food Heaven Made Easy, discuss the current state of nutrition and unique challenges for consumers in today’s food landscape. Discussion includes how dietitians and the food industry can learn from each other, function-forward and plant-based food trends, and the future of food.
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Jan 28, 2019
There's an Apple for that!
On this version of Lost In The Supermarket, Phil Lempert interviews Brianna Shales from Stemilt and Chef Ethan Stowell where they discuss apples.
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Jan 18, 2019
Phil Lempert interviews Phil Kafarakis at the Fancy Food show
Phil Lempert sits down with SFA President Phil Kafarakis to discuss the success of the Specialty Food Association's 2019 Winter Fancy Food Show.
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