Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI is officially moving forward with previously announced plans to begin testing ads within its search results. Initial agency and brand partners include Indeed, PMG, Universal McCann, and Whole Foods Market. The company said in a blog post announcing the move, "To fully deliver on our mission to spark the world's...

For entrepreneurs in the natural food and products industry like Constantine, Whole Foods has served as a launchpad of sorts for companies looking to get on mainstream store shelves. Companies and local farmers often would get into one or two locations and grow from there if their products took off. Like the big supermarkets and food manufacturers who are nervous about Amazon's size and power, many small suppliers can see benefits of the combination, but are also concerned what it could mean for them.

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Whole Foods Market’s summer condiment trends predictions come at a time when customers are turning to condiments to elevate their meals more than ever before. According to Mintel, sales for the condiment, marinade and dressing category are expected to hit $2.9 billion by 2024, showing growth of more than 5% since 2020.

This month, pizza lovers will be able to find PORTA Roman-Style pizzas Nationally at Whole Foods, Sprouts and select natural retailers.

The all-natural popcorn snacks are now available at stores in the Sunshine State.

Arla Foods Ingredients has launched a new concept for high-protein bars with a natural positioning.

The bread brand is aimed at the BFY market with zero added sugar, non-GMO ingredients, and high fiber content.

The brand, known for its cookies made from minimal ingredients, will now be available in 500+ Whole Foods Market locations across the U.S.

Soozy’s Grain-Free has officially announced the availability of its bread and bagel product lines.

The brand is introducing a trio of burrito varieties, making restaurant-quality frozen food more accessible.

The waffles are available in three flavors, including the first-to-market savory Cheesy Waffle.

Whole Foods Market’s Trends Council unveiled their Top 10 anticipated food and beverage trends for 2025 in the retailer’s 10th annual Trends predictions report. 

The organic grocery chain lets local producers bypass the red tape of the banks and offers small loans to eco-responsible small food businesses.

Whole Foods helped to galvanize a nation of progressive shoppers, and now they're mad as heck.

Supermarket chain will screen environmentally themed films in more than 70 cities starting in April.

A boy from Thousand Oaks started making Braille labels for his local grocery store and now Whole Foods.

Whole Foods Market unveils a rating system for household cleaning products sold in its stores. But is additional transparency really necessary in a store that a

The Prius-driving, organic chicken-buying crowd give us something to snicker about in the Whole Foods Parking Lot.

Our food blogger steps into a Whole Foods for the first time in years and learns a few things she didn’t know.

In a step in the right direction, Whole Foods announces it will remove all unsustainable seafood choices from its stores by Earth Day.

An ad of President Obama selling chicken at a Whole Foods is perceived as racist.

The natural and organic chain of grocery stores promises full GMO transparency by 2018.

Healthy lifestyle education will be the focus of the company's first luxury resort in Texas.

When the upscale grocery moves into poorer areas, the potential benefits are huge.

The “hip, cool and tech-oriented” chain will target millennials.

When a California Whole Foods store put three stalks of asparagus in a bottle of water and sold it for $5.99, the Internet called them on it.

To lure shoppers, Whole Foods is lowering its prices, but does that mean there will also be fewer options?

Amazon is buying Whole Foods, though the stores will operate as a separate unit from Amazon.

Now that Amazon has taken control, Whole Foods' prices have dropped. Amazon Prime members will see more discounts later.

Study of grocery store containers finds PFAS chemicals in two-thirds of containers tested, and Whole Foods' salad bar containers were the most problematic.

Starting June 2011, beauty products making 'organic' claims will have to meet the same certification standards as food products at Whole Foods.

The granola guru John Mackey has a new book and is once again making waves with his outspoken views.

Moore, the author of The Passion Conversation: Understanding, Sparking, and Sustaining Word of Mouth Marketing, will speak during the first day of the conference, February 25.

National Retailer Chooses Two Award-Winning Wines from the De La Rosa 613 Portfolio to be Sold at Select Florida Locations

National Retailer Chooses Two Award-Winning Wines from the De La Rosa 613 Portfolio to be Sold at Select Florida Locations

Founder Tamala Austin believes that "Health is Wealth" and has created a product that's now changing lives.

John Mackey, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and coauthor of "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business."

Amazon-owned Whole Foods will provide grocery shoppers with free single-use masks at all its stores beginning this week, in keeping with the chain's "request" that all shoppers wear masks.

Amazon-owned Whole Foods will provide grocery shoppers with free single-use masks at all its stores beginning this week, in keeping with the chain's "request" that all shoppers wear masks.

Amazon-owned Whole Foods will provide grocery shoppers with free single-use masks at all its stores beginning this week, in keeping with the chain's "request" that all shoppers wear masks.

(United States Ninth Circuit) - Vacating the district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant, Whole Foods, in a trademark infringement case, affirming the denial of plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, and remanding a case in which disputed material facts relating to the affirmative defenses of laches and acquiescence hadn't been resolved in the case of a company that used to sell EatRight cookies to Whole Foods, who later began marketing food products under the mark EatRight America.

(United States Second Circuit) - In a putative class action alleging that New York City grocery stores operated by Whole Foods Market-defendant systematically overstated the weights of pre‐packaged food products and overcharged customers as a result, the district court's grant of defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's complaint for lack of Article III standing because he failed to allege a sufficient injury in fact, is vacated where plaintiff plausibly alleged an injury in fact.

(United States DC Circuit) - Denial of the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the merger of the Whole Foods and Wild Oats supermarket chains is reversed and remanded where: 1) the case was not moot despite the merger's having already occurred; 2) the district court did not abuse its discretion by considering the market definition proposed by the FTC, in which Whole Foods and Wild Oats compete in the "premium, natural, and organic supermarkets" (PNOS) market, not against all supermarkets; 3) the FTC met the threshold requirements for obtaining a preliminary injunction by demonstrating a likelihood of success on its claim that the two supermarkets did compete in the PNOS market; and 4) the district court was best positioned to balance the FTC's showing against the equities weighing against an injunction. (Amended and reissued opinion)

The best reactions to the grocer's misguided recipe.

Her natural lemonade will hit the aisles soon.

Hat tip: Brad Bennett

I am constantly amazed at the level of political discourse in the US. So a debate about health care degenerates into scares about "death panels" and boycotts of Whole Foods because their CEO is against it. It is all a bit much, and a complete mystery

Kicking off New York Fashion Week, hessnatur and Whole Foods Market Tribeca are hosting an invite-only launch party September 9, for the "World in

Fashion icon and hessnatur Creative Director Miguel Adrover at Whole Foods Market. Credit Emma Grady Hessnatur kicked off New York Fashion Week Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at Whole Foods Market Tribeca with the launch of their "World in your hand"