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Whole Foods CEO Digs Deeper Hole
by Charles Selden on January 18, 2013 in Consumerist Takeaway, Words Matter

Caraway Seed Implantation Device
by Charles Selden on February 21, 2012 in Words Matter
Seed Imp© to the rescue! Responses to my Feb 9 post (about Whole Foods Seeded Jewish Rye Bread sold without the seeds) have inspired the design sketched here. A self-help problem solver, it hinges together two molded pieces of high-impact, transparent, dishwasher safe plastic. I call it the Seed Imp©. Instructions: –Place device on a […]

Do-It-Yourself Jewish Seeded Rye Bread
by Charles Selden on February 9, 2012 in Customer Service, Letters, Words Matter
What did Whole Foods do with the caraway seeds? Letter To: Whole Foods Corporate, 550 Bowie Street, Austin TX 78703 The label affixed to your bread package says ORGANIC JEWISH SEEDED RYE BREAD. It is a rye bread. I’ll take your word about it being Jewish and organic. But where are the seeds? It was […]

Local Coffee Beans From Brooklyn
by Charles Selden on December 5, 2011 in Certification Waltz, Words Matter
Are they near the tree that grew in Brooklyn? If you think about where coffee beans are grown, Brooklyn does not spring to mind—unless you are a marketing exec at Whole Foods. Coffee and Brooklyn call up images of little coffee shops in Brooklyn, not big plantations near the Brooklyn Bridge. Whole Foods marketing wants […]

Whole Foods Transforms Fresh Into Fresher
by Charles Selden on February 8, 2011 in Words Matter
Not content to stop with just fresh foods, Whole Foods has fresher in a recent promotion it sent me. Questions about how fresh become fresher: Are Whole Foods’ “FRESHER” foods harvested earlier than they used to be? It would make sense. The farther away food is grown from where it is eaten, the greener it […]
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