Another thing about WF is they have no policies that I know of for selling local produce even in areas where there are local farms. When they had their second store only in Houston (and the first in Austin) there used to be highly trained staff who were very helpful (there is still some evidence for this) but did carry a small amount of locally produced food. Even by the time I left Houston, 7 years later in 1990, that had changed and there was more and more industrially produced 'organic' food and no more local food.
JS > From: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:00:39 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Whole Foods, you are what you buy > > I hate to join the BDNOW! corporate potshot movement, but it's my > understanding that whole foods is also heavily invested in military > stocks, etc. This may have changed. The whistle I heard blew years > ago (maybe in the Austin days!). The point: they happily made profits > from areas that the organic movement would never 'loan' money to, > even if there was a promise of a good return
