Our Last Whole Foods Item of the Week...Promise

Given that Whole Foods finally made a community presentation about its expanded store in Gowanus and that the project architect sent us a rendering, we did some obsessive thorough coverage yesterday. We post this today for two reasons. One is that we ran across a fascinating item on Slate about how Whole Foods stock has been tanking and how the chain seems to be getting it on all ends from everyone--low-end competition from Wal-Mart, grassroots competition from community supported agriculture, bad publicity about the how organic doesn't mean friendly to the environment and, even, hostility from vegans pissed off that Whole Foods sell vegan products and meat. Second, we want to include links here to our three items from yesterday in case you didn't see them:

• Gowanus Whole Foods #3: Thumbs Down to a Green Roof
• Gowanus Whole Foods #2: Execs Say Toxics Under Control
• Gowanus Whole Foods #1: The Big Picture