Mind Retail: After 34 years of retail consultancy at McMillan Doolittle, you are now CEO of Good Food Holdings. Can you please present the company?
Neil Stern: Good Food Holding is the holding company for locally operated independent food retailers operating 51 stores in the U.S. West Coast. Our supermarkets cover 3,000 sq.m on average – which is smaller than other grocers – and are spread from San Diego to Seattle. We operate five banners – Bristol Farms, Lazy Acres Natural Market, Metropolitan Market, New Seasons Market and New Leaf Community Markets – with different business models: Bristol Farms is very premium with a focus on speciality and fresh products (meat, cheese….), two chains (Lazy Acres, New Leaf Community Markets) are 100% natural and organic…