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Consumers were more conscious than ever – but so were brands. Everyone was shouting about savings, health, or sustainability. The result? A lot of noise and not much meaning.
Wholesome Market emerged with a powerful idea: what if doing good didn’t have to be hard? What if you could shop once and have it make a difference to your body, your budget, and the planet?
But here’s the twist: they weren’t just another online grocer. They were offering something much bigger – a membership-powered model for collective good. The only problem? No one quite understood what that meant. Yet.
Wholesome was solving real problems – affordability, convenience, access – but it wasn’t cutting through. Membership sounded exclusive. Wholesale pricing sounded too good to be true. The message was muddy. People didn’t get the value. Retention was shaky. And the eco-health space was quickly becoming saturated with DTC players promising everything and delivering little.
The challenge was clear: Wholesome needed to define itself not just as better – but as different. Not just as a retailer – but as a category of one.
The truth we uncovered was both simple and profound: living better is a luxury that demands more money and time than ever.
They’re not looking for another subscription. They’re looking for a shortcut to goodness. They want to feel better about what they’re feeding their families, what they’re putting on their skin, what’s showing up on their doorstep. But they’re time-poor, price-sensitive and overwhelmed by options.
That’s where Wholesome came in – as the trusted grocer, doing the vetting, the filtering, the curating. And most importantly, doing the good, for them.
Our job was to crystallise Wholesome’s reason for being. Not as a “cheaper health store,” not as another delivery service, but as a movement disguised as a marketplace.
We reframed the membership model around access and belonging:
This wasn’t just about shopping. It was about showing people a whole new way to do some good. A daily ritual that felt joyful, not judgmental. Practical, not preachy. That subtle shift – from guilt to goodness – became the emotional unlock.
From there, we defined a strategic territory that rejected the health-washing and greenwashing so common in the category. Wholesome wouldn’t claim to be perfect. But it would always be progressive, practical and proud of the small wins.
This wasn’t a tagline. It was an organising idea for the business and our members.
“A whole new way to do some good” became the thread that tied every touchpoint together – a simple, generous idea that made members feel part of something bigger, without trying harder.
We brought it to life through:
This is Wholesome’s edge: they didn’t just build a better shopping platform. They reimagined what a grocery store could be – a quiet revolution, one pantry at a time.
And in doing so, they didn’t just make the health aisle obsolete.
They made doing good as easy as buying chips.
→ Danish is one of the most awarded strategists in the world, having worked on some of the most iconic brands in the last decade including Virgin Atlantic, Coca Cola, and Volvo. Danish spent his career helping to make modern, connected strategy integral to world-class effective work. A co-founder of Untangld, and a founding partner of By The Network, Danish is also a regular judge at the Effies and WARC Global Effectiveness Awards and a contributor to popular industry rags.
