Anycart is making its debut with an online grocery shopping engine designed to make meal planning, shopping and delivery easier, offering shoppable recipes and delivery from local grocers at no extra cost.
Mitch Madoff joins the upscale corner store retailer after 20 years with Whole Foods. The retailer also appointed Tae Strain of Momofuku to craft private brand offerings.
The retailer reported online sales up big for Q1 but brick-and-mortar sales were down. It also announced an expansion of some tech innovations such as a Whole Foods test of shoppers paying with a palm scan.
Retailer expanded its Climate Pledge Friendly program, making more third-party certified approved products available to buy and increasing certifications. Amazon also invested in new renewable energy sources.
Products that are certified through third-party organizations now get a Sourced for Good seal to assist Whole Foods shoppers looking to buy responsibly sourced items.
The retailer is offering a free-month trial of the Headspace meditation app and partnered on a new IGTV video series about mood-boosting recipes that feature its store brand products.
