The Brave New World of Retail: Join Errol Schweizer on the Next Compass Coffee Talk, November 18, 11:30am EST
The Brave New World of Retail
Join retail expert Errol Schweizer, former VP of Grocery for Whole Foods Market, as he explores the changing state of retail on the next Compass Coffee Talk
EPISODE 8 - WEDNESDAY, November 18, 11:30 AM – NOON EST
ZOOM, ADMISSION IS FREE
After serving for seven years as the VP of Grocery with the world’s largest natural products retailer, Whole Foods Market, Errol Schweizer has gone on to work with Patagonia, General Mills, Good Eggs, and other leading healthy lifestyles retailers and brands. Supermarket News named him one of their top 25 Game Changers, and in 2019 he won the Hemp Industry Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
In addition to working with leading food retailers and manufacturers, and further refining the natural products retail experience through his unique lens and experience, Errol has become an advocate for essential workers. His podcast, The Checkout, hosts amazing conversations with industry leaders and focuses on the rapid evolution of retail in the time of Covid-19 and beyond.
Join us for the next Compass Coffee Talk as co-hosts Steve Hoffman and Bill Capsalis from Compass Natural explore with Errol how to succeed in a rapidly changing retail market, and how brands can survive and thrive through the pandemic … and how grocery retail will change in the future.
About Errol Schweizer
A native of The Bronx, NY, Errol Schweizer is a 25+ year veteran of the food system, with experience in retail, food service, cooperatives, farmers markets, urban agriculture, community organizing and food policy. He has worked nearly every retail and service sector job, from grill cook and dishwasher, to stock clerk and purchasing manager. As the former V.P. of Grocery for Whole Foods, he spent over a decade bringing more than 6,000 products to market. Errol has subsequently had a huge impact on Non-GMO and Organic product availability, fair labor standards, Halal and Kosher certification, plant-based foods, and grass-fed and humanely-raised meat, eggs and dairy. Errol is currently a Board Member, Advisor and Co-Founder for over a dozen retailers and manufacturers in the natural products and cannabis sectors and is active in regional food policy, Organic food access and social justice organizing.
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About Compass Coffee Talk™
Take a 30-minute virtual coffee break with Compass Coffee Talk™. Hosted by natural industry veterans Bill Capsalis and Steve Hoffman, Coffee Talk features lively interactive conversations with industry leaders and experts designed to help guide entrepreneurs and businesses of any size succeed in the market for natural, organic, regenerative, hemp-derived and other eco-friendly products.
Compass Coffee Talk™ is produced by Compass Natural Marketing, a leading PR, branding and business development agency serving the natural and organic products industry. Learn more.
