Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger

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So, in conclusion, I think there's definitely a real market of people who will shop at Whole Foods and not at regular grocery stores, and that's true even if specific items of organic food are purchased by regular grocery customers.


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Maybe. There are a lot of easy things normal grocery stores could do to keep some of the customers they are losing to the speciality organic stores though. For instance the main reason I keep going back to whole foods is the quality of the produce. If safeway's produce didn't suck ass I wouldn't ever go to whole foods.