Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI) is an Austin, Texas-based natural 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 natural and 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.

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British retailer Tesco launched it's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets chain in the USA last month, and already has almost 30 stores open, with hundreds more to follow. German grocer ALDI plans to build 100 new small format stores. Whole Foods Market is even getting into the game. It's a retail revolution.

Two small format, no-frills, discount price-oriented natural foods retailers are expanding the number of stores they currently have significantly. Their target, Whole Foods Market, Inc., and supermarket shoppers who want to pay much less for natural and organic foods and groceries.

Now that the Whole Foods organic supermarket chain has finally completed its acquisition of former competitor Wild Oats Markets, it's time for the horrible price gouging we were warned about to kick in.

I don't know about you, but I am planning a trip to Israel now! I totally want to tag my food, create wish lists, food stumbles, eggs with RSS, and timer point 2:54 just about bust my gut. The whole store is tagged and a wiki! And of course, everything is free because it's the Internet!