SEC Says Mackey Online Escapades Are No Big Deal, We Agree
SEC Says Mackey Online Escapades Are No Big Deal, We Agree Time to prosecute the real corporate criminals, don’t you think.http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/04/25/afx4936330.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/19/BUGNPR2QFA1.DTL
Whole Foods Expansion And Wild Oats Transformations—A Slow Road Ahead
More and more, we’re hearing bits of news that suggest the post-Wild Oats merger has presented even more obstacles than we expected. While overall market opportunity remains huge, a lot of the challenge has to do with the fact that, notwithstanding some terrific management, Whole Foods might have too many balls in the air. The […]
Hain Brands Sponsors PBS Everyday Living Cooking Show
Hain Celestial Foods announced it’s sponsorship of another PBS cooking show. Hain’s latest PBS sponsorship is season five of the half hour Everyday Food television series on PBS, (check local listings). The half-hour television series features recipes from Martha Stewart Living OmniMedia’s Everyday Food magazine and offers simple recipes and meals that can be prepared […]
Go Organic!! Campaign Gets More Ooomph
As anyone who is on this site knows, organic is the new Starbucks, the new “It Girl”, and while it has profit-hungry supermarkets looking for new ways to reach customers, it still isn’t on everyone’s dinner table or even on their brain.So while the fourth year of the Go Organic! campaign is no longer the […]
Department of Justice Approves Sirius Merger, Leaving Us Wondering More About Scrutiny over Whole Foods Purchase of Wild Oats
Regular readers know that we were a bit confused about why the seemingly merger-happy Federal Trade Commission deemed Whole Foods’ purchase of Wild Oats as anti-competitive. It just didn’t make sense. Even if you believe, like we do, that the government should be more involved in the regulation of mergers, this one left us scratching our […]
Think Bar at Expo West
As regular readers, know we’re a bit hard-headed when it comes to reporting on our suddenly hot and trendy industry. After all, to those of us who have spent decades trying to create a sustainable economy, the LOOK MA OUR COMPANY MADE A SOLAR WAREHOUSE or HEY WE BUY WIND POWER sort of marketing makes […]
Hain Stock Downgraded
We’ve frequently written that we don’t understand Wall Street’s love affair with Hain-Celestial and while we’d be the first to admit we understand Wall Street as much as we know how to drive the Apollo Spaceship Lunar Module we felt somewhat gratified that Wall Street decided that the price for Hain’s love might be a bit to […]
LA Times on Whole Foods Pasadena
We’ve come to realize that the mainstream media is usually so wowed by Whole Foods that, most of the time, it seems their critical faculties are left at the door when they write about the store. We can understand. If you’re used to shopping at a drab and dull supermarket (meaning nearly all of them), […]
Whole Foods Closing in Gresham, Oregon Points Out the Magic of Its Touch on Real Estate
While we’ve been very clear on the fact that many Wild Oats stores were never that successful, and that WFM would be closing a significant number of them, a recent story in the local Gresham Outlook reminded us that store closings aren’t that different from factory closings. In other words, it hurts the locals in a lot […]
Drug Sales Rep Bares Bloated Details of Greasing the Medical Machine
Former Eli Lilly salesman Shahram Ahari, who spent two years selling the anti-depressants Prozac and Zypraxa told a Senate hearing some gritty details about how Big Pharma greases the wheels of doctor’s office’s with expensive gifts, generous free samples as well as relying on good looking sales people to exploit sexual tension in order to enhance the […]
