I read your follow up post. What a ridiculous and biased article written by someone with an obvious axe to grind (much like yourself). It is so full of inaccuracies and fallacies that I wouldn't know where to start in demolishing its arguments. Life is too short to argue against people in the co-op movement who think "food is for people, not for profit" or that finding the "cheapest food in each category" is a fair way to do a comparison between Whole Foods and Wal-Mart (since most of the cheap crap that Wal-Mart sells would never meet Whole Foods quality standards to be sold). Believe these negative articles if you want to. In the meantime, Whole Foods will continue flourishing and there isn't a damn thing that you, Kroger, Safeway, Wal-Mart, or "The People's Market" can do about it.

You've only got 280 days left on this Board, hubris. My margin of safety is over 15 points.