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Whole Foods Recognized for Animal Welfare Practices

You may not have known, but part of Whole Food Market’s mission includes a promise towards the humane treatment of animals and they are winning accolades for their animal welfare practices. The company has been recognized with both the Good Sow Commendation and the Global Good Egg Award from Compassion in World Farming.

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Papa John's Earning Brand Loyalty

Papa John’s is constantly asking their customers “how can we do better?” and their focus on constantly pursuing customer engagement is paying off. After last month’s wildly successful release of Papa John’s Garlic Knots, the company just announced that it would begin offering a sweet spin on a new fan favorite this summer.

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Whole Foods Market Announces New Store Concept

The latest big news from Whole Foods Market isn’t just the fact that they set another sales record in the second quarter, the grocery chain also just announced that they are launching a new store concept that is specifically targeted to the Millennial shopper. The company says it is building a team that plans to focus exclusively on this new concept and is currently negotiating leases. Whole Foods Market plans to begin opening stores next year.

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Contactless Payments on the Rise

Contactless payments, like Apple Pay are on the rise as more smartphones are NFC equipped. However, adoption is still slow amongst consumers. Ultimately, for now, real wallets are favored amongst consumers over digital wallets, but that trend is slowly shifting, with thought leaders like Deloitte expecting a 10x increase in smartphones used for contactless payments from 2014 to 2015.

As contactless payments rise, here are the 3 main factors driving retailers to adapt the new technology and eventually help drive consumer adoption.

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Groceries Online? Amazon's Take on Omni-Channel

The Amazon Dash button was so disruptive in concept that people thought it might be an early April fools prank on launch day, March 31st. The concept seemed so futuristic that it couldn't have been real. The main reason? Americans don't buy groceries online. In a world where omni-channel shopping is everywhere, groceries still remain are one of the biggest spending categories and one of the only categories almost exclusively available in-store. Some grocery stores, like Whole Foods Market, are piloting programs to make online groceries a possibility with delivery to consumers' homes part of the package. The concept is considered disruptive to the market, however, and since the concept is so new, adoption has been slow. Here are three ways that Amazon Dash could cause the biggest grocery disruption yet.

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