Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI) is an Austin, Texas-based natural 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 natural and 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.

As of today, Whole Foods Markets in Austin no longer will offer disposable plastic bags at checkout. Instead, shoppers will have a choice of complimentary 100 percent recycled paper bags or purchasing traditional canvas bags or a new reusable plastic tote. The latter, slightly larger than a traditional brown paper grocery bag, is 99 cents and made

Whole Foods downtown Austin has a roof top ice rink during the holiday season! Check it out!

Antitrust enforcers at the Federal Trade Commission squared off yesterday against lawyers for Austin-based Whole Foods in a second and final day of arguments before U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman. In the judge's hands rests the fate of Whole Foods' pending $565 million purchase of Boulder, Colo., rival Wild Oats.

The chief executive of Whole Foods Market wrote anonymous online attacks against a smaller rival and questioned why anyone would buy its stock, before Austin-based Whole Foods announced an offer to buy the other company this year. The postings on Internet financial forums were from someone named 'rahodeb,' ...

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