Thanks to new partnerships with Blue Ocean Institute and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Whole Foods Market is the first retailer to implement a comprehensive, science-based sustainability-ratings program for wild-caught seafood. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Lab...
With all the news and hubbub over Amazon being denied the greenlight to set up HQ2 in NY, as well as Amazon being seen as a contributor to the homelessness crisis in Seattle, you’d think the number one online retailer would be labeled as The Evil Empire. I’m sure quite a lot of...
A Plague On Its House:Pet Valu, the specialty retailer of pet food and supplies in the U.S., announced it wasclosing all of its 358 storesby the end of 2020. The Z Man wrote, "One reason Pet Valu suffered, while others boomed, is they embraced the cultural aspects of the panic. ...
She even identified the concept of pets as family as evidenced by the population of pets in the U.S. In 2012, for example, nearly 70% of households had a pet. The overall pet population also totaled 396 million, compared to 314 million people. For retailers, she said, the opportunity l...
While expert aquarists usually don't allow this to happen, casual aquarists might, especially if the pet store had a tank of "mixed Apistogramma" for sale, and it's certainly happening deliberately on some Southeast Asian fish farms.>
Plant-based pet foods appear to be growing in popularity, but it is unclear how suitable these products are for dogs and cats, considering both species naturally consume diets rich in, or exclusively comprised of, animal tissues. Laboratory analyses of essential nutrients were performed on 26 plan...