Talk:Whole Foods Market

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"That being said, Whole Foods has been consistantly cited for workers rights abuses, such as those pertaining to wage, "union busting" tactics, nepotism, and unfair dismissal."

Source(s)? Will remove if none are forthcoming. Mr. Jones 11:45, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

1 What are whole foods?
2 What Whole Foods addresses for email are there for customers services, for feedback and for company leadership?...
3 Policies=
- 3.1 Flagship Store
- 3.2 Added to external links

[edit] What are whole foods?

Should this article describe what is meant by 'whole foods'? Is it synonymous with 'natural food'? Also, I understand that 'whole foods store' is used generically in some countries. Someone care to elaborate? Dforest 06:54, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I don't know that there's any convenient catchall definition, but I've shopped in Whole Foods and it seems to me to be a cross between a "healthier grocery store" (i.e. they make a point to stock many organic/free range food and healthy alternatives) and a gourmet grocery store. · Katefan0^(scribble) 18:18, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

That's like having an article about Safeway describe what is meant by 'Safe Way.' It's the name of the store. As far as the generic term 'Whole Foods Store' I assume this is meant the same way 'Coke' is used in some places as a catch-all term for soda.

"Whole foods" and "Whole Foods Markets" are two different things. We need a whole foods article, and Whole_foods needs to NOT redirect to Whole_foods_market, especially given that a good percentage of the food sold at Whole Foods isn't whole at all (they sell plenty of processed, refined, and/or prepackaged food products).

Agreed. Oxford American Dictionary defines "whole food" as a noun for "food that has been processed or refined as little as possible and is free from additives or other artifical substances." Dictionary.com defines it as "a natural food especially when grown organically," with credit to Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary. It is a term used in agriculture that existed before Whole Foods Market and continues to be used outside of the context of the business. (I don't have a link for this definition because I'm copying it out of the print version.) In fact, I've unlinked both Whole_foods and Whole_Foods and built a new stub at Whole_foods with what little I can contribute while at work.

Actually, Whole Foods Market has cleanliness standards. They don't sell products with ingredients that have been linked to health concerns, pesticides on conventional produce not counted as ingredients. Processing does not make a food unclean per se, nor does refining or prepackaging. What is a "good percentage"?

It's not about cleanliness, it's about the dictionary definition of "whole foods." Whole Foods Market - the company and the products it sells - isn't representative enough of what whole foods are to be a sufficient redirect from Whole_foods.

[edit] What Whole Foods addresses for email are there for customers services, for feedback and for company leadership?...

Try http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/contact/index.html. Zoe 09:58, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Policies=

I feet that more should be said about Whole Food's environmental policies. Keremm May 9 2006

[edit] Flagship Store

I think that there needs to be something said about Whole Foods' flagship store in Austin as it adds/changes a lot of things not normally found in a regular Whole Foods store. Dragonfire September 4 2006