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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

U.S.'s Smallest Whole Foods to Open in Brookline

There is a bread-breaking ceremony in honor of the 22nd Whole Foods in Massachusetts on Thursday at 8 a.m..

The smallest Whole Foods in the United States will open its doors in Brookline on Thursday. The 16,000 square foot store will open with a bread-breaking ceremony at 8 a.m. at 1028 Beacon Street. The store will employ 75 team full and part time team members. “Our focus here will be ‘Bringing Local Flavor Home,’” Marketing Specialist JP Scioville said. “Our products will either be produced, packaged or made in New England.” Whole Foods sells local products wherever possible, though not all products can be locally sourced.   This store will offer quick serve, ready to eat items like sandwiches, pizzas and burritos as well as a coffee bar with a deck in the works for outdoor seating during the warm weather months. “We cook what we sell,” …

Jamie Aparicio Imm Santero

5:55 pm on Monday, April 29, 2013

Actually the Sebastopol, CA store is only 10,000 sq ft.......which was expanded from it's original 2,000 sq ft.   more ›

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Peanut Butter Plant to Trader Joe's, Whole Foods Shut by FDA

The Sunland Inc. plant that distributes products to Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Sprouts, Target, Safeway and others is linked to Salmonella contamination that made at least 41 people ill in 20 states.

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it has blocked food distribution from the Sunland Inc. peanut butter plant in New Mexico whose products were subject to a wide recall in recent months because of salmonella contamination. The various types of Sunland peanut butter products—sold under several brands by major food retailers, including Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Sprouts, Target and Safeway—had been part of a voluntary recall that began in September and later was expanded to include other nut butters as well as processed nuts and peanuts. The FDA action announced Monday is a mandatory order. The company's nut products have been "linked to an outbreak of Salmonella Bredeney that has sickened 41 people in 20 states," …

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