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Sarah Glunz, Lead Nutritionist for Giant Food Stores and Martin's Food Markets and National Turkey Federation Advisory Board Member, shares some of her favorite ways to engage customers while creating more basket rings for your retailer

Consumers continue to seek more natural, cleaner products; sales of natural products have doubled in the past decade according to SPINS data. This trend has gone mainstream, but why now?

One of the most daunting tasks for a host can be figuring out what to prepare at holiday meals and parties to accommodate diverse dietary patterns. Use this seasonal opportunity of social gatherings along with your nutrition expertise to offer recipe and menu options that ease the party planning burden for shoppers.

As more and more retail dietitians are providing one-on-one counseling as part of their services, adopting an EMR system can present some potential benefits for retail dietitians that far outweigh its learning curve.

Supermarket RDs have a unique opportunity to help consumers reduce waste by providing education that can have a positive financial and environmental impact. Here are some efforts to consider:

Toby Amidor, MS, RD nutrition expert and author of The Healthy Meal Prep Cookbook: Easy and Wholesome Meals to Cook, Prep, Grab and Go discusses how “meal prepping” could be used at supermarkets to help shoppers enjoy meals at home that are delicious, balanced, quick, and portable.

Health can be a bigger sales driver for frozen foods.

“Shop the perimeter store.”  This little piece of advice to consumers to help them shop for healthier food has been used for years but is really misguided. 

Today’s shoppers are diversifying their grocery destinations and demand more transparency about several aspects of the food they buy.