I love shopping at Whole Foods Market!  Do you like the store?
I love all of there 473 stores.
Wow!  There are that many of them?  Where did Whole Foods originate?
I am not sure but Amazon.com and Whole Foods Market merged in 2017.
I did hear about that.  Will they be dropping their prices?  Whole Foods is quite expensive!
on August 28, 2017.
History.
History Early years.
In 1978, John Mackey and Renee Lawson borrowed $45,000 from family and friends to open a small vegetarian natural foods store called SaferWay in Austin, Texas (the name being a spoof of Safeway). When the two were evicted from their apartment for storing food products in it, they decided to live at the store. Because it was zoned for commercial use, there was no shower stall, so they bathed using a water hose attached to their
possible intention to take over some vacant Sears and Kmart stores and refurbish them after Sears Holdings Corporation, which owned both chains, filed for bankruptcy in October.
Product quality.
Whole Foods Market only sells products that meet its self-created quality standards for being "natural", which the store defines as: minimally processed foods that are free of hydrogenated fats as well as artificial flavors, colors, sweeteners, preservatives, and many others as listed on their online "Unacceptable Food Ingredients" list. Whole Foods Market