{"id":936,"date":"2014-04-11T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/dont-fear-mainstream-organics-is-here-yikes\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:40:00","slug":"dont-fear-mainstream-organics-is-here-yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/dont-fear-mainstream-organics-is-here-yikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t fear – mainstream Organics is here! Yikes – Wal-Mart betting on Organics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t fear – mainstream Organics is here! Yikes – Wal-Mart betting on Organics?<\/a><\/p>\n

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With Wal-Mart “trying to make organic food more accessible to its budget-conscious shoppers”<\/em> many (of us) cringe with fears conjured from the days of big-box stores destroying mom & pops shops. \u00a0That said, if only 5% of our food is sourced locally in the Northeast, aren’t big businesses already controlling our food system? \u00a0And, on the flip-side, considering Organics is only 4% marketshare, we have to look at this evolution from big-box as a huge step forward in promoting consumer awareness and setting stage for what could be next…<\/p>\n

Acting as the proving ground for early adopters, consumers of Organic food have long paid ultra premiums & proved a growing market demand for better sustenance. Now, the true opportunity for “better quality real-food” is from regional production of local, artisanal foods as industrialized Organics (no doubt better than conventional production for many reasons) will not hold-water with consumers becoming increasingly more aware of their food system and demanding more transparency & traceability in tow.<\/p>\n

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Don’t fear – mainstream Organics is here! Yikes – Wal-Mart betting on Organics? With Wal-Mart “trying to make organic food more accessible to its budget-conscious shoppers” many (of us) cringe with fears conjured from the days of big-box stores destroying mom & pops shops. \u00a0That said, if only 5% of our food is sourced locally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-organics-mainstream","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}