Sandeep Gyawali has big dreams for our bread. By combining quality techniques and training with unique, locally sourced artisanal ingredients he believes he’s bringing the best bread we’ve ever made to our stores. Read on to learn how Sandeep is revolutionizing bread at Whole Foods Market. Producer profile – Barton Springs Mill Some of Our Favorite […]
The Future of Beauty
What goes on your body is just as important as what goes in it. From requiring producers to list ingredients on their packaging to banning 180 + ingredients, our beauty standards go above and beyond. A Conversation with Marissa and Casey What makes our Whole Body Department so unique? Whole Story: Welcome, Casey & Marissa! […]
Celebrating International Women’s Day with Whole Planet Foundation
Celebrating International Women’s Day with Whole Planet Foundation This year’s International Women’s Day theme is to break the bias. It challenges us to imagine a world free of gender bias and discrimination. Across the globe, women entrepreneurs typically have fewer resources, and less access to financial systems. Whole Planet Foundation works with collaborative organizations to provide microlending services to […]
Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs
Microcredit can have a mighty impact on poverty. Since 2005, Whole Planet Foundation has funded 5.7 million microcredit loans to low-income entrepreneurs – mostly women – through microfinance relationships in 80 countries around the world where Whole Foods Market sources products. Whole Planet Foundation (WPF) is a Whole Foods Market non-profit dedicated to alleviating poverty […]
Sourced for Good Flowers
Our Sourced for Good program highlights our commitment to responsible sourcing. In collaboration with farms, suppliers and international third-party certifiers like Fair Trade USA, Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade America, Fair Food Program, Regenerative Organic Certified and Equitable Food Initiative, we’re helping provide for things like fair wages, health care, student scholarships, planting trees to prevent erosion […]
The No List
From the day we opened our doors in September 1980, steadfast and selective have underpinned the attitude behind the standards of the products we sell — and love. When we review ingredients, we consider the interconnected effects of the way that food is processed and regulated by authorities in the U.S., UK, Canada and beyond. All […]