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The Modern Shopper: Jessica Siegel from Gelson\’s

Jessica Siegel has been the Staff Dietitian at Gelson’s for more than 20 years and is one of the leaders in the retail dietitian effort. She spoke to Phil Lempert about the importance of having consistent messaging around healthy eating, the value of tapping into trends like grab & go, and some of the challenges and opportunities for Retail Dietitians today.

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The Modern Shopper: Jessica Siegel from Gelson\’s

Jessica Siegel has been the Staff Dietitian at Gelson’s for more than 20 years and is one of the leaders in the retail dietitian effort. She spoke to Phil Lempert about the importance of having consistent messaging around healthy eating, the value of tapping into trends like grab & go, and some of the challenges and opportunities for Retail Dietitians today.

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The Modern Shopper: Beth Johnson from Food Directions LLC

Phil Lempert speaks with Beth Johnson, the Founder and Principal at Food Directions LLC. With over 25 years of food policy experience serving inside and outside the government, Beth has some great insights to share! In this episode Beth and Phil discuss the front-of-pack systems helping shoppers to meet their health and sustainability goals, and Beth shares her insights on why defining ’healthy\’ is so tricky in the first place.

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The Modern Shopper: Allison Delaney from Stop & Shop Supermarkets

Phil Lempert interviews Allison Delaney from Stop & Shop Supermarkets. In this episode they talk about innovating private brand products to meet shoppers’ health, wellness, and budgetary needs, and Allison shares some great insights into the development of the private brand products, the call for greater ingredient transparency when it comes to Free-From, and the potential of e-commerce. 

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How climate change will affect nutrition

As an industry, we talk a lot about climate change and how it has an effect on the supply chain – what we haven’t heard a lot about is how climate change will have an effect on just how nutritious our foods will be.  

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What’s keeping U.S. grocery CEOs up at night?

Retail CEOs have weathered the onset of the pandemic and are now focused on larger issues that are influencing store operations. What\’s keeping CEOs up at night now are labor shortages, climate change, and transportation; and their impact on prices and availability of the food and beverages in store. 

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