Retail News
- Forget the Warehouse: How IHR Magazine Turns Independent Shelves Into a Single Network For two decades, e-commerce belonged to whoever built the biggest warehouse. IHR Magazine's new Plugin rewrites that rule — the independents don't build one, they pool the shelves they already have into a single…
- Liver Wellness Is Having a Moment — What’s Real, What’s Regulated, and How Canadian Retailers Should Play It Liver support is one of the fastest-moving corners of the supplement aisle, powered by milk thistle, turmeric and dandelion root. IHR separates the traditional-use story from the clinical evidence, maps the Health Canada NPN…
- How to Merchandise the GLP-1 Era: Where the Money Leaves Your Aisle, and Where It Moves Next There is a shopper standing in your weight-management section right now who used to buy three products from it and now buys none. She has not become less health-conscious. She has not left the…
- Metabolic Health Is Quietly Becoming the Most Important Categories Metabolic wellness is no longer being driven by disease management alone. It is increasingly being fuelled by mainstream consumers looking for stable energy, appetite control, cognitive clarity, weight resilience, and healthy ageing support. That…
- Merchandising Opportunity: Recovery-Based Nighttime Wellness For years, the sleep category was largely built around one promise: helping consumers fall asleep faster. But today’s wellness consumer is no longer only looking for sedation. Increasingly, they are looking for recovery. That…
- The New Merchandising Strategy: Selling Stress Support Through Ingredient Synergy The stress-support category is no longer being driven solely by consumers seeking relaxation. Increasingly, the category is being fuelled by consumers looking for physiological resilience without cognitive impairment. That distinction matters at shelf. Retailers…
- Canada’s Natural Health Retail Sector: The 2026 Mid-Year Review The first half of 2026 has confirmed what many across Canada’s wellness industry anticipated: the natural health retail landscape is entering a more aggressive, capital-driven era of expansion and transformation. From major chain growth…
- The New Reality of Shoplifting in Health Food Retail Sector The Theft No One Talks About—But Everyone Feels Walk into any independent health store today and you’ll notice something subtle but telling. Staff are more alert. High-value items are quietly repositioned. Conversations feel more…
- The 5 Costly Merchandising Mistakes Yous Are Making in Longevity & Anti-Aging The longevity category is no longer niche. It is one of the fastest-growing, highest-margin, and most intellectually driven segments in natural health retail. Yet many stores are underperforming—not because of product selection, but because…
- February 2026 Retail Activity Review Retail activity is one of the clearest indicators of confidence in the natural health channel. This February, the public signals were not just about promotions or category trends; they included real, dated store openings…