“Wall Street tends to understand the transactional much better than deep customer relationships...Natural grocers, like high-end retailers, have a relationship with their customers that goes way beyond the transactional and is very hard to put a value on.” Hmm okay sure, but what’s up with the photos in this story?
Oakland Whole Foods Security Guard Fired After Allegedly Assaulting Customer
An armed security guard employed by a Whole Foods market in Oakland has been “permanently removed” after an altercation with a customer ended in violence, SF Weekly reports. “He was trying to buy groceries with his EBT card and ended up in a stretcher,” one witness, Zoe Marks, wrote on Facebook.
The Bizarro Bullshit Logic Whole Foods Uses to Profit
In October 2011, I was rounding out a year and a half of service in a Whole Foods bakery when I finally stopped to read the text that was on the side of our pie boxes. This was a revelatory moment in my relationship with the company, which wants its employees not just to drink but to steep in their organic non-GMO…
Whole Foods $6 Asparagus Water Is the American Dream at Work
The internet scoffed again this week: “Six dollars for a bottle of water with asparagus in it? Whole Foods has gone too far.” But the bougie grocery chain is doing God’s work by ripping off the foolish.
Whole Foods and Millennials, Together at Last? Oh Brother
Hey readers, did you hear the news that fancy grocery chain Whole Foods is going to open a new chain of stores targeting millennials?
Katie Holmes Had a Secret Whole Foods Entrance: An Update
Last week, we investigated one of the stranger celebrity conspiracy theories: That Katie Holmes had used a secret entrance to the Whole Foods in Chelsea, Manhattan to evade paparazzi after filing for divorce against Tom Cruise. Over the weekend, we learned something that might unsettle some of our readers: The…
Did Katie Holmes Have a Secret Entrance to Whole Foods in Chelsea?
In the summer of 2012, shortly after she filed divorce papers to dissolve her marriage to Tom Cruise, the actress Katie Holmes moved into a Manhattan apartment complex called the Chelsea Mercantile. The prewar building has 354 units, a private garage, and, on the street level, a Whole Foods Market, where Holmes began…
What Whole Foods Employees Think of the Company's "Values"
Whole Foods has just launched its first national advertising campaign, featuring the slogan "Values Matter." It emphasizes not just quality food, but also the company's "fair labor practices." How do Whole Foods employees feel on that point?
Here Are Some Reasons Whole Foods Workers Might Want a Union
Whole Foods, a company that has lately been beloved by yuppies, the middle class, and Wall Street alike, is facing demands for a union. But Whole Foods hates unions! How much? An insider tells us more.
Whole Foods Employees Ask For a Union
Whole Foods has had a pretty bad year. Its stock cratered in 2014, as lower-cost competitors undercut its prices. But now earnings are up, the stock is on the rise, and the company has a new problem: some of its workers would like a union.
The latest Bloomberg analysis shows that Whole Foods "has become one of the cheaper chains for grocery shopping in Manhattan." Of course. Fuck.
Vogue Model Arrested for Stealing Chocolate Bars
A 19-year-old Vogue model wound up in court this week after she allegedly tried to steal three chocolate bars from a downtown Whole Foods earlier this summer.
The Future of Organic Food Is Walmart
It's tough being Whole Foods. Competing fancy grocery chains threaten from one side. Big box stores selling organic food threaten from the other side. "All natural" food will thrive in the most unnatural environments.
Whole Foods says it will stop selling bottom-of-the-milk-barrel Greek yogurt brand Chobani in order to make room for yogurts that "are organic, or don't contain genetically modified ingredients." Yeah. And that don't taste like paste. Please, eat the right kind of Greek yogurt in 2014.
It's a Mob Scene at Brooklyn's Very First Whole Foods
A brand new Whole Foods, the first ever in Brooklyn, opened this morning in Gowanus, and inspired One Direction-like stampedes from eager borough-dwellers.
Good news for the long-suffering food shoppers of Newark: a Whole Foods is coming to town. The bad news: the store will be located in Newark.
Chicken-Less Eggs Now For Sale at Whole Foods
In another strike against urban chicken lovers, today Whole Foods stores in California began selling Beyond Eggs, a plant-based egg substitute made from ground-up peas, sorghum, and “a few other ingredients.” Backed by high-profile investors like Bill Gates and Paypal’s Peter Thiel, Beyond Eggs can “replace eggs in…
Whole Foods Hilariously Pretends to Hold 'Sales'
Haha, would you believe me if I told you that Whole Foods, the grocery store of Wealthy Housewives On Their Way to Yoga Who Just Need a $12.99 Juice, is still trying to convince America that it is not an "expensive" grocery store? What's the big joke, guys?
Whole Foods Workers Suspended for Violating 'English Only' Policy
A Whole Foods Market store in Albuquerque reportedly suspended two employees for violating the company's "English-only" policy by speaking Spanish to each other during work hours.
