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.

The Whole Foods Market chain said Tuesday that it would stop offering plastic grocery bags, giving customers instead a choice between recycled paper or reusable bags.

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...

Whole Foods will be ending its use of disposable plastic grocery bags in all of its 270 stores by Earth Day, April 22.

Whole Foods says it wants to eliminate disposable plastic grocery bags at all its stores by Earth Day, April 22. To kick things off, today the organic grocer is giving away thousands of reusable bags at checkouts.