Education
He then attended Pratt Institute for graduate studies in package design and went on to create Lempert Design, Marketing & Advertising. During this time, Lempert began publishing the bi-weekly The Lempert Report.
He then attended Pratt Institute for graduate studies in package design and went on to create Lempert Design, Marketing & Advertising. During this time, Lempert began publishing the bi-weekly The Lempert Report.
Known as the "SupermarketGuru", Lempert appears weekly with "New Product Hit"s & Misses" on American Broadcasting Company Now and hosts a weekly radio show called Good Day with SupermarketGuru. Lempert is a contributing editor of Supermarket News, and a content provider for SN. He has written for Newsday, Family Circle, and Meat & Seafood Merchandising, among other publications. Lempert worked at McDonald"s and Howard Johnson"s in High School, and after graduating Drexel University he worked in his family"s food brokerage firm.
He went on to became senior vice president of Age Wave a lifestyle consulting firm that focuses on the life path of the baby boomer generation and then joined the Tribune Company as chairman of their food task force and created content for their newspapers, online services and television stations.
As Editor, he produces a weekly "New Product Hit and Mission" segment and publishes e-publications targeted to consumers and businesses: Xtreme Retail23, Food Nutrition & Science, Coffee Chat News and Facts, Figures & the Future. In 2007, Lempert founded "Philosophy’s Supermarket," the first supermarket to exist in the virtual world of Second Life.
In 2010, Lempert produced and hosted a documentary called Food Sense with Philosophy Lempert that aired on United States. public television stations. The one-hour documentary follows a typical American breakfast of eggs, bacon, orange juice, toast, coffee and strawberries from farm and factory to table.
Viewers are introduced to both organic and conventional food production methods and watch how the Mercantile Exchange and other issues impact food prices.
Lempert is the former host of a live call-in syndicated radio show called Shopping Smart and from 1989-2005 he hosted a weekly, live call-in radio show, Before You Bite with Philosophy Lempert. Lempert was a correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live Up All Night, a monthly guest on British Broadcasting Corporation"s International Journalists Debate and was a weekly contributor to KCRW’s Good Food program Lempert has appeared on The View, Oprah, Discovery Health and Extra and has been profiled and interviewed by United States of America Today, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer,National Enquirer, Daily News, Newsday, Boston Herald, Ottawa Citizen, and Brandweek.