Category: Sustainable food retailing

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Chicago Market Seeks Co-operation With Ownership Drive

Posted on by bob.benenson@gmail.com

Chicago Market is a food cooperative project that just launched its first major public ownership/fundraiser campaign on Sunday. And no one can say that the co-op supermarket, proposed for the city’s North Side, is trying to elbow its way into an overcrowded commercial sector.

Whole Foods’ New Produce Ratings: Transparency Bears Fruit

Posted on by Jim Slama

[Note: This article was also published on Civil Eats, a journalism site that covers sustainable food issues.]

Whole Foods Market (WFM) is again at the forefront of the movement for greater transparency in food production and processing with its new comprehensive ratings system for fresh produce and flowers.