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...Colicchio hasn't looked at food prices in a long time. "Wow, pasta is more expensive than I thought it was," he says, scanning the shelves of the Ralph's supermarket on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Colicchio, the head judge on Bravo's Top Chef, hires people to buy food for his Craft, CraftSteak and 'wichcraft restaurants across the country. Plus, he's rich...
...south of Tunis. Just four years after starting to export to Europe, Jinene Agro now gains half its profits from foreign sales. Tunisia's sunny latitude allows El Phil to ship fresh peaches and plums during the weeks from mid-March to mid-April when there's space on supermarket shelves throughout Europe. "We harvest after the end of production in Chile and South Africa, and before Europe begins," he says. "We exploit that gap." Such built-in potential in the agriculture sector, until now largely untapped, could fuel the kind of economic development so badly needed across the Maghreb...
From these beginnings have emerged two great retailing successes: Mackey's Whole Foods Market is the leading natural-foods supermarket chain; Tindell's Container Store has the storage-and-organization category it invented pretty much to itself. And lately, ceos Mackey and Tindell have reconnected--partly to bask in the shared joys of being rich former slackers ("You have a Frisbee golf course on your ranch too?!?") but mainly to discuss the approach they say has enabled their success. I got to sit in on such a chat at Whole Foods' headquarters in Austin. (A transcript is at time.com/mackeytindell....
This view of business as harmony doesn't entirely square with the ferocious competitiveness displayed at times by Mackey, who made headlines last year for posting pseudonymous Internet messages disparaging another supermarket chain. When I bring this up, Mackey tells me he thinks competitors are stakeholders too. "I want to beat them," he says. "But I also have a philosophical view that if we didn't have competitors, we wouldn't be as good a company...
...come with a traceable bar code. "When you're dealing with tomatoes, it is much, much more complex," explains Dr. David Acheson, the FDA's associate commissioner for foods. The FDA's great tomato hunt has an ever-expanding list of suspects. A salmonella victim can point to the supermarket (or restaurant) that sold the offending fruit, but that store probably sources its tomatoes from several suppliers, each of which uses several distributors - and distributors buy from any number of growers...