Past Webinars

Meal planning services are one of the many reasons customers seek out the help of a dietitian. Although this task can be time-consuming for dietitians, creating meal plans that are tailored to each unique customer’s needs can greatly increase their overall success with their nutrition goals and satisfaction with your retailer’s nutrition services.

Brought to you by The Mushroom Council, Kim Bedwell will share fresh mushroom best practices based on an extensive study of how consumers react to strategic pricing and promotional changes across channels, regions, pack sizes, types, and varieties. 

The goal of this session is to provide attendees with a look at the family meals “landscape” today and highlight fresh ideas that retail RDs can use to address the challenges consumers currently have around shopping for, planning and preparing family meals. This webinar will emphasize several strategies, as well as practical tools and tips that in-store RDs can utilize to augment their impact when encouraging healthy family meals to consumers.

Looking for ideas on how to re-engage your shoppers on cooking demos and/or live streams? Or to showcase culinary tips along with nutrition insights? Make your next demo is more engaging by partnering with a local chef. Join Shari Steinbach, MS, RDN, Dietitian for Michigan Beans, and Personal Chef Paul Penney as they present an interactive cook-along promoting easy, delicious soup recipes that will assist your customers with eating healthier, reducing waste and saving money. Recipes to be provided in advance of this presentation.

Join Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN, to update you about the latest information on an increasingly important topic and how it applies to retail. This webinar seeks to offer participants a global perspective on the consumption and importance of milk.

Over the past two years, online grocery sales have surged, jumping as high as 300% early in the pandemic, compared to the previous year.* What was once done out of necessity has become a habit for many shoppers that is expected to continue into the future. While the shift to online shopping created initial challenges, it has also presented opportunities for commodities like USA Pears and retail dietitians to help guide shoppers to nutritious food options.

Global sales of no- and low-alcohol beverages are surging, and health-conscious millennials are driving the mindful drinking movement, with 66% making efforts to reduce their alcohol consumption, according to Neilson data. Sip along as we make two mocktails with renowned chef, Matt Abdoo and discuss 5 ways retail RDs can accommodate this trend while giving shoppers a boost. We’ll also hear from Spartan Nash’s Deanna Sheid, on how she used mocktails as the foundation to develop a successful 360, cross-functional marketing campaign for her 128 stores. 

This webinar, sponsored by Quaker Oats and Bare Snacks, will discuss affordable, versatile and nutritious products, provide dietitians with creative ideas on how to promote these products through their programming and share guidance on additional strategies RDs can use to help their shoppers make the most of their grocery budget.

Join RDBA for a virtual activity on Thursday, October 28th 2-3pm CT where Coborn’s Health & Wellness Manager Emily Parent MFCS, RD, LD, FAND will take you through best practices for hosting both virtual and in-person snack-alongs with your shoppers.

Data suggestions that kids’ influence on household purchases has increased, including in the food and beverage category. And from environmentally friendly products to global flavors to vegetarianism, today’s kids are more health conscious than prior generations. During this webcast, RDBA CEO Phil Lempert and Executive Director Annette Maggi, MS, RDN, LD, FAND will talk with a Kimberly Asman, RD, In-store Dietitian at Weis Markets, Inc. and Amy Petersen, MS, RD, LD, Health and Nutrition Manager at Coborn’s, Inc. about kids’ programming that works, ROI of these programs, and the value to the retail industry.