[pct-l] Big GORP News

[JD Schaefer]

Whole Foods is buying Wild Oats.
JD


Tortoise wrote:

>There are some Whole Food stores in California and a few Wild Oats 
>stores in southern Cal and more up around Portland, OR.
>
>We have a WalMart store here which wiped out various other stores before 
>I moved to Crescent City. I avoid WalMart when ever practical./
>
>/Now I'm going to start pulling my BP gear together and get ready to go 
>sit in a week or two on the PCT by Grider Creek and see who comes thru.
>
>Tortoise
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><> He who finishes last, wins! <>
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>I switched to Mac OSX rather than fight Windows
>Using Mozilla Thunderbird  http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
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>hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
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>
>>Tortoise writes: Out here in the nether lands of California, it would 
>>be nice to have a Whole Foods available. Closest similar is the Arcata 
>>Co-op `75 miles away. :-(   I don't go for flavored water except maybe 
>>iodine-flavored from disinfection. 
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>>I heard that there was a Whole Food being built in CA.  Now I am 
>>trying to remember where.  The news picture showed some men working on 
>>the outside of the building.  I would think Wild Oats would be a good 
>>place to go too.  Actually, I like at WalMart, the DASANI flavored 
>>water.  But I cannot take to much of the Splenda that is in it, just a 
>>little.  But it is very good for flavoring trail water.  A bottle 
>>would last a week.
>>
>>I think at Wild Oats I got some pure lemon crystals to flavor water 
>>too.  I try to be careful of all the chemicals in products now days.  
>>I am trying to move toward natural flavors, etc.
>>
>>Switchback the Hydrator
>>
>>
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