In this issue - Autumn 2021

Greenbay – a Spanish-Columbian alliance in West London

Vegan supermarket celebrates its fifth anniversary

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Are there staff issues in health food retailing?

We talk to retailers about how the pandemic and Brexit have affected the sector's staffing levels

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Where did all the staff go?

Some left because they had to but many replacement applicants just can't be bothered, says Mel Beard

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Driving towards higher costs

You don't need us to tell you there's a supply chain problem. Thankfully, our wholesalers and retailers are a resilient bunch.

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Supply chain

We talk to wholesalers and retailers

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New life after the pandemic

NNB editor Alistair Forrest salutes the authors of a campaign booklet that is helping health food stores everywhere to reboot in the changing world of retailing.

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Last chance saloon

Q&A with ReachFive’s Russell Loarridge on how stores with an online shop must learn to engage with their customers.

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All looking good... until checkout

Since the beginning of the year, New Natural Business has picked up the baton for mystery shopping. Before that, the series gained huge popularity in our former ID of Better Retailing Magazine. The pandemic changed shopping patterns for many customers so since then we've been focusing on health food and natural product stores with an online shop...

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Is this really the end of a food staple?

HFI Founder and Secretary Ray Hill considers the future of milk...

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Waste not, want not

Food wastage is a huge issue in the UK and there are many ways that health food retailers can help customers to combat this as well as help them make better choices in store. Here are our top tips!

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Healthy, wealthy and wise. Guaranteed.

Thankfully, we now live in a time of green shoots and many new start-ups. The multi-platform model gives instant access to consumers via web and social media shops

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Collective vision, constructive goals, common sense

If there's one thing that the HFMA is well-known for, it's our collective vision. Without doubt, our extensive membership (including 29 new members in the last 18 months) really packs a collective punch when needed.

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Read articles from the Summer 2021 issue here