Senate Proposes Changes on Organic Rules
Is It Like Putting the Fox in Charge of Guarding The Henhouse More and more granola minded soccer moms are buying organic nut butters, gallons of Odwalla juices and Amy’s Organic frozen dinners at big box stores. No surprise here. In San Francisco, I know lots of folks who load up their Volvos at Whole […]
They’ll Take Staten Island? Brooklyn Turns Back Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart is batting 0 for 2 in its quest to finally open a location in New York City. Plans this spring to open a store in the Rego Park section of Queens failed and recent efforts to open a store in Brooklyn were rebuffed by the same combination of union, civic and small business activists […]
Wal-Mart: The Movie Not a Horror Flick, It’s A Documentary
Robert Greenwald the director/producer of the documentary OUTFOXED now turns his attention from Rupert Murdoch to Sam Walton’s empire in a new project currently entitled WAL-MART which looks at various people, families and communities impacted by the giant retailer’s marketing strategies. Check it out at www.walmartmovie.com
Was Wal-Mart’s Interest In Wild Oats The Real Reason For Whole Foods Buy
While we never thought that the prospect of a conventional grocer’s purchase of Wild Oats was reason enough for Whole Foods to purchase the ungainly, troubled #2 chain, we recently heard some news that makes WFM’s buyout of Oats a lot morel logical. Turns out that more and more folks have been reporting that a […]