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This may be old news, but gogoraleigh.com is reporting that the site plans for the proposed Whole Foods at Six Forks and Strickland have been presented to the city planning commission. Interesting take on this on that blog.
This may be old news, but gogoraleigh.com is reporting that the site plans for the proposed Whole Foods at Six Forks and Strickland have been presented to the city planning commission. Interesting take on this on that blog.
Very interesting..... I wonder how the Lowes Foods and Food Lion stores may be affected since the customer base in that area is already limited to have so many grocery stores located in the same area.
I don't understand the take given on the other blog. I'm not sure if the poster had an issue with the design or the location. I hope he will elaborate.
FWIW, I would love to see a Whole Foods or Trader Joes move into a location in Downtwon Raleigh. I still contened that having one of those places in downtown Raleigh would really boost the number of people who visit downtown on a regular basis and it would draw more retail to the downtown area.
Very interesting..... I wonder how the Lowes Foods and Food Lion stores may be affected since the customer base in that area is already limited to have so many grocery stores located in the same area.
Food Lion and Whole Foods target very different segments of the grocery market. I would think Whole Foods would have the biggest effect on Fresh Market, followed by Harris Teeter, and to a lesser extent Lowes and Kroger.
For those of you who are Whole Food lovers, I suggest you read The Omnivore's Dilemma. Very good book and one that turned me off from Whole Foods long ago.
For those of you who are Whole Food lovers, I suggest you read The Omnivore's Dilemma. Very good book and one that turned me off from Whole Foods long ago.
OMG! I love this book!!!! It turned me off from grocery store organic produce & organic meats. Now I only get pastured/local/grass-fed meats & sustainable produce (grown using the same process as organic but are just not labeled *organic*) at the Farmers Market.
OMG! I love this book!!!! It turned me off from grocery store organic produce & organic meats. Now I only get pastured/local/grass-fed meats & sustainable produce (grown using the same process as organic but are just not labeled *organic*) at the Farmers Market.
Yeah, I'm living in VA (moving to NC this summer) and I've been buying from Joel Salatin's farm for about 3 years now (he's the farmer featured in the book). They make deliveries about every 5 weeks.
I'm waiting for Food, Inc. (the movie) to be released around here so that I can check it out. It's along the same lines.
Food Lion and Whole Foods target very different segments of the grocery market. I would think Whole Foods would have the biggest effect on Fresh Market, followed by Harris Teeter, and to a lesser extent Lowes and Kroger.
I agree. I can't envision anyone who shops at Whole Foods ever stepping foot into such a disgusting grocery store such as Food Lion.
I'm waiting for Food, Inc. (the movie) to be released around here so that I can check it out. It's along the same lines.
I saw it at the Riverrun film festival. They mostly focused on factory farms/mass produced food = bad. They showed a farm Tyson gets their chickens from as well as the inside of the Smithfield plant in Tar Heel, NC.
They talked with Stoneyfield Farms - visited an actual farm while walmart was there and talked with the founder. Certainly wasn't painted as negatively as the other places they showed.
I actually found the part about Monsanto more interesting since it's rarely talked about in the media.
Yeah, I'm living in VA (moving to NC this summer) and I've been buying from Joel Salatin's farm for about 3 years now (he's the farmer featured in the book). They make deliveries about every 5 weeks.
I'm waiting for Food, Inc. (the movie) to be released around here so that I can check it out. It's along the same lines.
Nice! I also read some of Joel Salatin's books. But the other book I liked is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle from Barbara Kingsolver. Definetely less intense than OD but with some really good information about eating locally and with the seasons. I enjoyed this book too!
I really hope the movie Food, Inc will bring more awareness to the CAFO situation, which I find to be the most depressing of all. I cried while reading about the "manufacturing process" of the egg laying hens in OD book. I just can't bring myself to eat grocery store eggs anymore. I get my eggs from a local farm where the hens eat a natural diet outside, which is not the same as your average *organic* eggs at the grocery store.
I'm not a vegetarian but I do believe we don't have to torture the animals we plan to eat. Also, the diet of these animals stuck in the CAFOs is so terrible that the benefit of eating meat vanishes. The nutriotional value of CAFO meats is super low. This website has some good facts about the benefits of eating pasture meats.
I also agree that people that shop at Food Lion are not the same people you'll find at Whole Foods or even at the Farmer Market. These markets are going after completely different demographics.
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