Re: Whole Foods, you are what you buy

2003-01-05 Thread Jane Sherry
> 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 milit

Re: Whole Foods, you are what you buy

2003-01-04 Thread Allan Balliett
So, though I like WF and admire how far they've come in the health food industry, they DID treat it as an industry. To them, that organically grown sticker is nothing more than a commodity. Industry vs movement. We're not doing ourselves any favor if we celebrate the successes of the industry wh

Whole Foods, you are what you buy

2003-01-04 Thread flylo
Whole Foods started out in Austin Tx of all places, 1980's, little 'hole in the wall'. Austin also has / had a good food co-op called Wheatsfield which was bigger at the time. It's still there, but about the same size, very family type atmosphere. WF is more glistening supermarket style. When I