Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI) is an Austin, Texas-based foods grocer. As of September 2007, the company operates over 270 locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.Whole Foods Market is a food retailer of organic products including produce, seafood, grocery, meat and poultry, bakery, prepared foods and catering, beer, wine, cheese, whole body, floral, pet products, and household products. The company also sells a selection of conventional national brands. The company is consistently ranked among the most socially responsible businesses.

A good article that takes you to a bunch of gourmet food shops in NYC, including Dean & DeLuca and the Chelsea Market.

FOR as long as most people can remember, food has been getting cheaper and farming has been in decline. In 1974-2005 food prices on world markets fell by three-quarters in real terms. Food today is so cheap that the West is battling gluttony even as it scrapes piles of half-eaten leftovers into the bin.

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BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Marketing budgets get cut in a recession, right? Not according to several of today's package-goods leaders. In a testament to how important advertising has become to their businesses, Procter & Gamble Co., Colgate-Palmolive Co., Kraft Foods and Kellogg Co. all have boosted or at least maintained their marketing budgets,

As food prices soar, more nations are falling back on an old -- and potentially hazardous -- response: price controls.The price rises partly reflect increased demand from emerging markets and higher oil prices, which drive up the cost of growing and transporting food.