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...Mackey is girding for battle. "We're trying to make it as difficult and as costly as possible for competitors to enter markets where we dominate," he says. Judging from what is happening in Boston, however, it seems more than a few companies may be willing to take that risk...
...departments. They evaluate the salaries and performance of their bosses, ratings that are closely watched by top execs. "One of the keys to understanding this company is that the people who started it did not know how they were supposed to do it," says chairman and co-founder John Mackey. "This is the way our culture has developed." Indeed, Whole Foods was recently named by FORTUNE magazine as one of the top 100 places to work...
...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, says Barbara Miller, who follows the food industry as an analyst for BT Alex Brown. The supers "have only so much aisle space...
While many students do feel peer pressure to smoke, a countervailing trend of health consciousness also makes smoking difficult. Wendy A. Mackey-Kydd, a health educator at University Health Services, says, "It's almost like a social pariah to be a smoker, at least for an adult, and it may be for a college student...
...Benham moved Operation Rescue's national headquarters into the same small building that houses McCorvey's clinic. After some recrimination, the two bonded, and she told him of her doubts. By May she was doing odd jobs around Operation Rescue's offices. Then last month seven-year-old Emily Mackey, the daughter of the office manager, invited the woman she now calls "Auntie" to church, and McCorvey accepted Jesus Christ...