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wishstar

(5,267 posts)
1. This Whole Foods magazine is not affiliated with the Whole Foods grocery chain
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 02:42 PM
Nov 2019

The Whole Foods magazine that has operated for 35 years has a clear disclosure on their website that they are not affiliated with Whole Foods groceries.

RainCaster

(10,690 posts)
4. Give us a list of their prime advertisers please
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 02:46 PM
Nov 2019

We can begin boycott of them if they don't pull out of that rag.

essme

(1,207 posts)
8. That is a great suggestion
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 02:53 PM
Nov 2019

and I will be looking at that- in fact, I think I'll buy this issue, and make a list.

Thank you. I am horrified.

RainCaster

(10,690 posts)
10. Dig up an old issue that you have- don't buy a new one unless you absolutely have to.
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 02:59 PM
Nov 2019

No sense giving those failures any more $$.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
6. +1 also see below
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 02:47 PM
Nov 2019

WholeFoods Magazine is a monthly natural foods trade journal in the United States. The magazine has a total circulation of over 16,000 copies. WholeFoods Magazine is a trade journal for natural food suppliers, health food stores, food cooperatives, supermarkets, and natural/organic products businesses. The magazine produces articles designed to educate retailers on trends in the natural foods industry, emergent product categories and industry analysis. It also includes legal advice, merchandising tips, industry news and research. The primary columnists in WholeFoods Magazine are Richard Passwater, Scott Tips, and Jay Jacobowitz. The scope of products covered in the magazine includes dietary supplements, herbs, homeopathy, natural health products, organic food, and whole foods.

https://en.everybodywiki.com/Whole_Foods_Magazine

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
12. Trade Publication
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 03:09 PM
Nov 2019

makes more sense now. I used to write for a Trade Journal and I assure you that most of the content of all of them is simply drivel to fill column inches.

I wouldn't take this thing too seriously.

maxsolomon

(32,992 posts)
7. Who has done more for the Whole Food industry this year?
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 02:48 PM
Nov 2019

He's buried everything the Dems have tried to do on the topic. They couldn't buy better representation.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
9. The unregulated supplement and snake oil bullshit industry loves Republicans
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 02:56 PM
Nov 2019

If you want to sell questionable bullshit with extravagant health claims and no regulation, yeah, the GOP is your crew.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
11. Then somebody ought to be suing somebody else for trademark infringement.
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 03:01 PM
Nov 2019

I'm not a fan of the Whole Foods store - it's ridiculously expensive - but do they want to be associated with Moscow Mitch because a magazine uses the same name?

Although the store also sells a lot of "health" products.

LeftInTX

(24,560 posts)
13. This magazine has been around for a long time.
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 03:28 PM
Nov 2019

Whole Foods Market was founded in 1980, but consisted of one store. In 1988, it purchased Whole Food Co.
This magazine was founded in 1984. The magazine is free at health food stores. I think Whole Foods Market is a Republican owned chain anyway.

Beginning in 1984, Whole Foods Market expanded out of Austin, first to Houston and Dallas and then into New Orleans with the purchase of The Whole Food Co. in 1988. In 1989, the company expanded to the West Coast with a store in Palo Alto, California. While opening new stores, the company fueled rapid growth by acquiring other natural foods chains throughout the 1990s: Wellspring Grocery of North Carolina, Bread & Circus of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (banner retired in 2003), Mrs. Gooch's Natural Foods Markets of Los Angeles,[13] Bread of Life of Northern California, Fresh Fields Markets on the East Coast and in the Midwest, Florida Bread of Life stores, Detroit-area Merchant of Vino stores, and Nature's Heartland of Boston.[14] The company purchased Allegro Coffee Company in 1997. The company's 100th store was opened in Torrance, California, in 1999.[15] In April 2019, Whole Foods opened its largest store in the Southeast in Midtown Atlanta. The three-level store has a burger restaurant, an Allegro Coffee shop and a rooftop terrace.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Foods_Market

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,041 posts)
16. might be too late for trademark infringement claims
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 05:23 PM
Nov 2019

Just pass 'em some kerosene and kleenex, wrapped in cellophane.

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