Two Investment Bankers Went Shopping for Flaxseed Oil
Is Wall Street Worried About Whole Foods? Recent volatility and downgrades WFM’s stock may not have tarnished it’s platinum sheen but NBN wonders if the presence of two new New York City stores, may have members of the Wall Street elite wondering, “is the magic really all there?” In other words are more Investment Muckety […]
Retail Wrecking Ball Part of Safeway’s Renewal
“Holy granola they tore down the Safeway,” I yelled driving through Mill Valley last week. In case you don’t know, north of San Francisco is Marin County where there’s less fog, more sunshine and even more money. The dreary Safeways in Mill Valley always surprised me. And while a lot of these well-heeled Mill Valley-ites […]
Whole Foods Opens on Union Square
Calling it “the equivalent of the Beatles Concert at Shea Stadium” for Whole Foods fanatics, Jim Crotty, one of the monks of Monk Magazine, called me today to report on the “total scene” at the opening of Whole Foods latest New York store in Union Square. “People were walking around inspecting things,” Crotty said, adding […]
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 […]
Chicago’s Dumpster Task Force Closes Whole Foods
When Good Stores Get Sloppy Anyone who ever worked where there was garbage knows that there are rodents too, but when the Lake View Whole Foods Market was closed for a day due to “substantial rodent activity” I am pretty sure that some team member responsible for cleaning up the garbage wasn’t doing their job, […]