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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods Puts Store Coupons Online]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas ? Whole Foods Market here has begun offering online coupons also appearing in The Whole Deal, its in-store value guide. "It's all about convenience," said Whole Foods? ?Market Value Guru? Barry Hirsch. "Now, in addition to finding coupons in each in-store issue of The Whole Deal value guide,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:01:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods Slims Down Stores So They'll Age Better]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods has scaled back its store growth plans and has said it will concentrate on smaller stores going forward. by Mike Duff]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:14:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods Joins Healthy School Lunch 'Revolution']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As obesity and other public health issues come into the spotlight, there is more and more focus on school lunch programs and the foods kids have access to at school. On Labor Day, thousands gathered at "eat-in" picnics across the country to push for improvements to the School Lunch Program...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:07:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should Whole Foods CEO Have Taken on ObamaCare?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods CEO John Mackey wrote a gutsy and possibly ill-conceived op-ed piece in the WSJ where he took on ObamaCare. But by pushing for less government, Mackey may have angered his company's left-leaning customer base, some of whom are calling for a boycott. Should he have done it? by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:30:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods fans decry CEO's health care views]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods aficionados who assumed the company's management was as crunchy as the brand are feeling betrayed. They have stormed Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere to vent their rage at John Mackey, the chief executive. In an op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal last week, he argued for health-care...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:22:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is John Mackey Clueless About Whole Foods' Customer Base?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is learning a valuable lesson for all of us. As it turns out, the kind of people who are willing to spend extra money for organic, environmentally-friendly, locally sourced food are not generally the kind of people who respond well to op-ed pieces that start...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:15:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods Stores Turning Trends on Lower Pricing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods sales continued to slide in the latest quarter, but consumers are not as determined to cut back on their shopping at the natural -- and gourmet -- food purveyor, which has been lowering prices to encourage customers to think of it as more cost competitive with other retailers....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:16:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods Twitters on the Cheap]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing retailers have to love about social network marketing is how cheap promotions can be and how much interesting feedback they can generate.    Take contests for example. At the same time a traditional contest promoter, Burger King, has been offering a million dollar grand prize in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:40:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods Pushes Non-GMO Label]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods has partnered with the Non-GMO Project in an attempt to promote testing and labeling of foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients. The grocer's private label products will use the project's Product Verification Program PVP, which uses on-site facility audits and DNA testing to ensure compliance. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:08:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods Suffers as Organic Gains Skid]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earnings decline at least represented the reversal of a trend, as in the previous quarter, earnings per share were down 95.8 percent. by Mike Duff]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:51:27 -0700</pubDate>
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