O/T Whole Foods Buys Wild Oats - Organic meats - Old post from Andy

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Below is an old post from Andy from 2000. When I read about the

recent purchase of Wild Oats by Whole Foods, I was reminded of this

post. Anyone have recent experience with either?

----Katharine

" BTW, the honesty of the people behind the meat counter in the stores

varies

dramatically. I had a lot of trouble with the butchers at Whole Foods

swearing on a stack of bibles their stuff was organic when it turned

out to

be the same Farmer or Zacky stuff that was in all the other markets -

and I got really sick on it. The butcher at a Market near me (now a

Ralph's) turned out to be quite knowledgeable about the industry and

to know

exactly where I could get what organic even though he couldn't carry

any of

it due to lack of customer demand.

Because of this and other problems I do not shop at Whole Foods. I take my

chances at Ralph's or go to Wild Oats. "

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