When I started this story last month, I never expected a standard interview request with a designer to turn into a bureaucratic two-step that took us to China and back.
Austin-based Whole Foods Market officially phased out the use of plastic shopping bags on Earth Day last week.
Shopdropping is sort of like reverse consumerism. Artist Ryan Watkins-Hughes switches the mundane packages on tin cans, then sneaks them onto the shelves in stores, such as NYC’s Whole Foods. He thinks of it as reverse shoplifting.
A short essay about shopping at designer health food stores. Includes links for tips on saving money while shopping organically.
Nice post about how Whole Foods is taking action to clean up the environment. Great information about what else is going on with recycling, and we can do individually.
4 great reusable shopping bags for under .99 cents! what a steal!
Whole Foods is launching a new organic wine called Green Path. Green Path wine will be sold exclusively at Whole Foods stores nationwide starting this month. The packaging choice on this wine is interesting. The wine will be sold solely in Tetra Pak one liter cartons. Tetra Pak is a paper-based carton marketed as an environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic or glass bottles.
The popular organic grocer Whole Foods will go ahead with its plans to purchase Wild Oats, consolidating two of the best-known brands in the natural and organic foods retail world.
Despite having won approval from a judge to buy rival Wild Oats for $565 million, Whole Foods must hold off until a federal appeals court considers a request by the Federal Trade Commission to block the merger.
