New Seasons Refuses Whole Foods Subpoena
December 15 2008
Going to have to side with New Seasons on this one. In attempt to protect it’s growing Borg like health food monopoly the Texas based Whole foods has issued a Supoena for the portland based New Seasons busisness plan.
From the New Seasons Blog: “…because of their legal dispute with the FTC, Whole Foods has an opportunity to try and force us to give them copies of some of our most confidential financial records – for instance what our sales are, week by week, at each of our stores. They’ve also demanded all of our files that detail our strategic plans, all of our marketing plans and all of our studies about where we are considering opening new stores.”
Complete link here.
An employee of the whole foods HQ had this to say: “We have not singled out New Seasons. Rather they are one of 96 companies (stores and vendors) that our outside legal counsel has subpoenaed. Why so many? The FTC has targeted Whole Foods Market in 29 different markets, and we must now defend against the claim that we do not face substantial competition from other supermarkets in all of these markets.”
Those comments were in the responses on this blog.
But that is not all to consider when you are thinking about spending your hard earned money at whole foods here in Portland.
Please contact Whole Foods and tell them to leave New Seasons alone.
