More recently, Whole Foods closed on the purchase of the Harry's Farmers Market grocery chain.
Beneath this booming business, however, Whole Foods still hews to its hippie, health-food roots.
But Wall Street is wondering whether Whole Foods has already lowered prices enough.
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Libba Letton, a spokeswoman for Whole Foods, said the mislabeled salads came from a company-owned commissary.
Bardin worked with Mike Lee of Studiofeast to design the whole foods menu.
Whole Foods founder John Mackey built a retail powerhouse peddling food as sensual, succulent succor.
He paid the same college students to do in-store promotions at nearby Whole Foods stores.
We also spent considerable time testing every energy bar Whole Foods has to offer.
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It might be if you were chasing a stock like Amazon.com or Whole Foods.
One of Chung's more recent positions is in Whole Foods Market, the high-priced organic foods retailer.
Whole Foods carries young goat in the Atlanta, North Carolina, San Francisco Bay and Washington, D.
The U.S. private equity firm already has investments in Whole Foods Market, J.
Corporate sponsors include such major companies as FedEx, Google, CME Group and Whole Foods.
We stopped by the Whole Foods in Union Square, which amazingly still had power.
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These included fierce criticisms of a competitor, Wild Oats, which Whole Foods later bought.
We're half-expecting organically-grown smartphones at Whole Foods, right next to the kale chips and fair trade coffee.
Whole Foods Market, Inc. had an annual average earnings growth of 11.2% over the past 10 years.
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"It's theater, " says Christina Minardi, a Whole Foods regional vice president who oversees the New York stores.
There's no Whole Foods, but the C-Town supermarket will order anything you can't find on the shelf.
As more chefs signed on, Niman pushed into larger venues like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods Market.
Details on this group, which includes Whole Foods, Walgreen, Starbucks and others are in our report.
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Within a year popchips were in Target, Whole Foods and Jamba Juice, and on Virgin Airlines flights.
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And Whole Foods puts a premium on products that are grown or produced locally (read: super fresh).
"The consumer is much more demanding for product that is in perfect condition, " Whole Foods' Mr. Parker says.
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To sell its soaps, Method turned to sustainably-minded Whole Foods Markets, which sells the products exclusively nationwide.
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At New York's posh Time Warner Center the new Whole Foods is a 59, 000-square-foot temple to culinary obsession.
As can be seen from the popularity of rip-off artists like Whole Foods markets, organic foods are popular.
On the other hand, Seventh Generation , Whole Foods and the U. S. Forest Service are credible choices.
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But the days when Whole Foods was the only big natural-food competitor to be reckoned with are over.
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The company gave the guards amazing freedom to become self-managed (along the lines of the Whole Foods model).
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