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...stores in 17 states. Whole Foods rose to dominance in a three-year buying spree during which it acquired New England's Bread and Circus, North Carolina's Wellspring Markets and California's Mrs. Gooch's. Last year the company swallowed its biggest rival, the 22-store East Coast chain Fresh Fields, leaving Whole Foods and Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo.--one-quarter its size--as the only two national natural-foods chains...
...friendly culture will soon be put to a severe test as a second wave of competitors emerges. In Boston, where Whole Foods has held sway with its five Bread and Circus stores, Star Markets, a billion-dollar conventional chain, has recently opened four natural and organic Wild Harvest supermarkets. Meanwhile, Wild Oats, while not as large, grew 75% last year and looks to become a formidable rival. In spite of that, Mackey still sees supermarkets as his main competition: chains like Albertson's and Safeway have vastly increased their natural-foods offerings. Such chains, however, may actually help organic stores...
...Harvardian whining. The sundry 15-minute strikes on bronze bells are treasured hall-marks of many European cities and universities, and those peals operate as any decent public time-piece should--24 hours a day. Sadly, in a culture such as ours (which values asphalt and chain-link over bronze), peals like those in the campanile of St. Paul's are a rare treasure indeed. At a university which prides itself on the diversity of its community and whose students rail against the homogenization of Harvard Square, it strikes me as somewhat hypocritical that this unique portion of the Square...
...issue. Some people just don't like bells, and this does not upset me in the slightest. What does upset me is the vapid, parochial attitude the quoted comments illuminate and the kind of self-absorbed, self-preoccupied refutation of community and the communal experience they reflect. We treasure chain-link over bronze because we treasure ourselves over others. It is this underlying stripe of self-centeredness and introversion which taints our society (never mind our university) and keeps us physically and socially immured. CHRISTOPHER...
Actually, this clothing and linen specialty store chain, based in Canada, has 35 stores in the U.S. from coast to coast--obviously, the New England aesthetic is spreading (no shopper need be without his or her duvet cover). Also, belying its image, the store lacks that cold "look but don't touch" Victorian mentality. Signs literally plead with customers to "Please Touch," noting that "to fully appreciate the beauty of our prints, we invite you to unfold, examine, and explore their many patterns and textures...