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.

Whole Foods, which, for those of you who don't have one, is the world's largest eco-healthy food store, has just promised to completely stop using plastic bags. And while I like that they're, y'know, considering these things, it turns out that their logic may be faulty.

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Well, even among all of the fuss over stores like Whole Foods ending their use of disposable plastic shopping bags and all of the great reusable bag options out there, Christine Kearney of Reuters spells out the truth for us: the plastic bag is still king in the U.S.

In a move likely to be followed by other grocery store chains, Whole Foods today said it was putting a stop to that age-old grocery store question of “Paper of plastic?”

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...