{"id":1643,"date":"2005-09-28T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/09\/28\/whole-foods-broadening-its-horizons\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:01:00","slug":"whole-foods-broadening-its-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/whole-foods-broadening-its-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods Broadening Its Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"
From The Motley Fool (registration required), news<\/a> that Whole Foods<\/a> is planning to broaden it’s business plan:<\/p>\n The Austin, Texas-based grocery chain outfit is going to launch a different sort of store in West Hollywood, Calif., in October. Rather than selling the company’s usual fare of all-natural foodstuffs, the new concept will tout organic and environmentally friendly clothing and housewares, world music, and books and magazines concerned with sustainable living.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My initial reaction was that this makes sense for a company positioning itself as a “green Wal-Mart”: just as Wal-Mart moved from consumer goods to groceries with its SuperCenters, Whole Foods seems to be doing the same thing in reverse (and, of course, with much more style). I realize their are some problems with this analogy, as Whole Foods is not a low-priced retailer, but there is the “big box” similarity. Perhaps I’m being too harsh (and I do occasionally shop there)…<\/p>\n Categories: shopping<\/a>, groceries<\/a>, clothing<\/a>, housewares<\/a>, sustainability<\/a>, Whole Foods<\/a>, Wal-Mart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From The Motley Fool (registration required), news that Whole Foods is planning to broaden it’s business plan: The Austin, Texas-based grocery chain outfit is going to launch a different sort [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n