Results tagged “wholefoodsmarket”

We were so excited about checking out the new Whole Foods Market in Boystown which opened last week, that we accidentally grabbed our Trader Joe’s reusable bag instead of our Whole Foods one (we figure it’s the thought that counts, right?). But walking around the large airy store with Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Starting Something” playing in the background, we quickly forgot all about our faux pas as well as that of Whole Foods CEO...

File this under "chutzpah." An antitrust lawsuit (Adobe PDF file) filed by the Federal Trade Commission this week against Whole Foods, which seeks to block the organic food giant's purchase of its closest competitor Wild Oats, revealed that anonymous postings to business and financial forums criticizing the price of Wild Oats stock were actually authored by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. Mackey's postings, made under the name "radoheb" from 1999 to 2006, consistently criticized the...

It appears that the E. coli contamination is far from over; Salinas, CA-based Nunes Co. Inc. has recalled lettuce after it found some "generic" E. coli in a secondary water source for the lettuce. Generic E. coli? That sounds sort of like "half-pregnant" or "mostly dead" do us -- we aren't sure if we buy it.

The Center on Halsted, the future social center for wayward boys-who-like-boys and girls-who-like-girls in Lakeview, was awarded a stunning $50,000 grant to begin funding the gymnasium project at the Center. The generous donation comes from the Chicago Cubs, and Cubs Care, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. Chicagoist can’t say that we remember the last time we needed a gymnasium, but we're sure, that when it is built, the floors will stay so shiny...