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 […]
New York Times On Clorox Green Works
Maybe once again we expect too much from the media. But it seems like common sense that a piece in in today’s New York Times in a section called Greening Business discussing Clorox’ new Green Works line of soap and cleansers, would have to devote more than just give a mere passing mention to the company that started it […]
Westport Whole Foods Shoppers Remind Us How Much Wild Oats Missed the Mark
Two weeks ago, we spent a few hours in the Westport Whole Foods Market that was formerly Wild Oats. Actually, it used be a terrific independent store that was then bought by distributor United Natural Food’s NRG retail group . Wild Oats bought it from UNFI and when the Safeway right next door closed, they knocked down […]
Celebrity Pantry Features Author John Berendt
Anyone who’s knows me knows that there are two things NBN can’t get enough of. Chocolate is one, and attention is the other. Well if you can’t get it yourself, why not talk to those who do? So we’ve decided it’s time to find out what’s in the pantries and refrigerators of the famous and […]
