Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI) is an Austin, Texas-based foods grocer. As of September 2007, the company operates over 270 locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.Whole Foods Market is a food retailer of organic products including produce, seafood, grocery, meat and poultry, bakery, prepared foods and catering, beer, wine, cheese, whole body, floral, pet products, and household products. The company also sells a selection of conventional national brands. The company is consistently ranked among the most socially responsible businesses.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whole Foods Market Inc said on Tuesday that it will aim to end the use of disposable plastic grocery bags in all of its 270 U.S., Canada, and United Kingdom stores by April 22, Earth Day. The grocer, which features natural...

John Mackey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Whole Foods Market Inc., has a good idea as to what the future of global organic and alternative food production should look like.

Two small format, no-frills, discount price-oriented natural foods retailers are expanding the number of stores they currently have significantly. Their target, Whole Foods Market, Inc., and supermarket shoppers who want to pay much less for natural and organic foods and groceries.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in an unusual move, is appealing Whole Foods Market, Inc's Acquisition of Wild Oats once again. This time it's an "after the fact" appeal. Whole Foods is already well on its way to integrating Wild Oats into its system. The article discusses the futility of the FTC's latest appeal.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a U.S. Federal Trade Commission request to block Whole Foods Market Inc.'s acquisition of smaller rival Wild Oats Markets Inc. The decision, which caps off months of legal wrangling over the $565 million deal, means the companies are likely to combine, although the government can still appeal the ruling.