Fresh Market in Westport Leaves Whole Foods Empty
Take a look at the NBN archives and you’ll find more than a few stories covering the impact of Whole Foods opening up in what was then, Wild Oats territory. Louisville and West Hartford were the most obvious examples of what WFM was doing right and Wild Oats doing wrong. Examples of what WFM was […]
Hartman Group on Tesco’s Fresh and Easy Failure
While we were among those who initially reported that U.K. giant Tesco’s willingness to spend up to $1 billion dollars to enter the U.S. had Whole Foods bigwigs shaking in their granola boots we were wrong. We got our proverbial viewfinder in by the market research mavens at the Hartman Group last February. In their Tesco White […]
Whole Foods and The Federal Trade Commission Battle Royale
While NBN is a frequent critic of Whole Foods but the claim that they are creating a monopoly is baseless. Even for those of us who favor greater regulation of business this makes no sense.All the trends points to the opposite fact. Natural and organic products are everywhere. Products that once available only in natural […]
Whole Foods UK Division Loses 10 Million Pounds
Whole Foods sees £10m loss in first year http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=449053&in_page_id=3&position=moretopstories
LOHAS Wal-Mart and Whole Foods
Interesting piece on the sustainable motivations that link Whole Foods and Wal-Mart. We think everyone knows who is more sincere about changing the planet but its not bad if Sam Walton’s folks want to save money and look good too. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/20/unlikely-pair-talk-green-whole-foods-wal-mart/
Forget Wal-Mart? Target Will Be The Real Mass Market Organic Powerhouse
Of course forgetting Wal-Mart is like forgetting global warming. It can’t be done. Unless you’re dead. But here’s the point. While Wal-Mart will be a major force in any market it enters, its ability to reach natural and organic consumers is limited. They don’t like shopping there and when these folks do, they are often […]
Whole Foods Glastonbury, Greenest Supermarket in America Uses Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power
As reported in the Waterbury Republican-American the newly opened Whole Foods Market in Glastonbury, Connecticut is the first supermarket in the world to use fuel cell technology to power its store. The fuel cell power plant built which is located at the rear of the store was built and is owned by UTC Power a division of […]
Hain Impresses Wall Street While Whole Foods Leaves Em Worried
Wall Street’s love affair with natural and organic got a little more interesting as two recent conference calls suggest that our analysis of Whole Foods efforts as sluggish, are on the mark, while our previous doubts about Hain Celestial Foods long term strategy for growth needs some rethinking. While Whole Foods total sales increased 28% […]
Thoughts on Fair Trade Day
If you’re not aware of the growing social movement to create market-based approaches to reducing poverty throughout the globe take a look at Transfair to learn more. For information on where to purchase fair traded products such as coffee, tea, rice, sugar, cacao, fruit and flowers that guarantee fair prices to the farmers and their families search here for […]
Scouting Report From Whole Foods London
Though modest as websites go, we have our ways and recently we sent our overseas correspondent to scout out the new Whole Foods behemoth on posh Kensington High. She lives just a few blocks away, is wealthy and loves good, fresh quality foods. Most of the time she’s at the country house in Staffordshire. She […]