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9 unusual facts about Whole Foods Market


Alden Marin

Marin’s image entitled "Riven Rock" is now a wine label for Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon wine being sold under a private label of the same name at the grocery chain Whole Foods Market.

Anti-boycott

When Whole Foods Market was boycotted because the CEO opposed U.S. President Barack Obama's health care reform policies, opponents of health care reform staged nationwide Buycotts.

Dark Rye

Dark Rye is an award-winning online magazine from Whole Foods Market, based in Austin, Texas.

IceStone

IceStone has developed its customer base to include Starbucks, NASA, the Ritz-Carlton, Whole Foods, and Amazon.

Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania

The largest Whole Foods Market in the Philadelphia area opened on January 12, 2010.

Stuart Skorman

Skorman was also an executive at Bread & Circus, the Boston-based natural foods chain bought by Whole Foods in 1992 and is the author of the book Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur, Why I Can't Stop Starting Over (Jossey-Bass, 2006).

Think Green Alliance

Whole Foods Market: provide organic food choices from sustainable farming; big proponent of local food and supporter of local farmers (through the Local Producer Loan Program, which $10 million available annually for low-interest loans to small, local producers); other initiatives include first "green building" award for HQ in Austin, TX, promotion of non-toxic cleaning products and reduction of waste through "nickel per bag" program

Two Degrees Food

The company distributes bars to health food, specialty, grocery, college and food service channels across the United States, including more than 1000 locations including Whole Foods, stores, Barnes & Noble College bookstores, coffee shops, and corporations.

Yoav Potash

The film won the Jury Prize at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival and is an official selection of Whole Foods Market’s online film festival, Do Something Reel.


3Degrees

3Degrees’ partners include utilities & Load-Serving Entities (LSEs) such as the City of Palo Alto Utilities and Dominion Resources, renewable energy project owners, institutions and non-profits such as Northwestern University, and businesses such as Whole Foods Market and Starbucks.

BTTR Ventures

They partnered with Peet's Coffee & Tea(PEET) and other local coffee shops as sources of coffee grounds and Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Andronico's, Mollie Stone's and other regional grocery stores as distributors of the company's mushrooms and mushroom kits for more than their 30 Bay Area stores, and CitySlickers Farms, an Oakland Urban Farming Project, and Oakland Unified School District as receivers of the company's compost donation.

Ecologic Brands, Inc.

Ecologic's first commercial breakthrough came in January 2010 when the company partnered with Straus Family Creamery for its first market test at Whole Foods Market in Northern California.

Omni Superstore

Omni would eventually be phased out by Dominick's and Safeway for various reasons ranging from consumer preference to responding to competition from new stores such as Meijer, Whole Foods and Wal-Mart entering the Chicago market.

Sweet Leaf Tea Company

Sweet Leaf Tea is available for purchase in convenience stores, restaurants, supermarkets and specialty grocers like Market of Choice, Whole Foods Market, Albertsons, Publix, Piggly Wiggly, Costco, Target, Kroger, The Fresh Market, Wal-Mart and Straub's Markets throughout the United States and online at the bottlers website.

The Outlets at Bergen Town Center

Due to highly restrictive blue laws in effect in Bergen County and more restrictive limitations in place in Paramus, The Outlets at Bergen Town Center is completely closed on Sundays, except for Bobby's Burger Palace, CVS Pharmacy, Cups Frozen Yogurt, FrozenPeaks, Miller's Ale House, Pei Wei, Potbelly Sandwich Shop, Qdoba, Ulta Spa, Blink Fitness, Massage Envy, Miller's Ale House, Bahama Breeze, Olive Garden, Red Robin, and Whole Foods Market.


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