$22.71

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7/3/2008 1:00 PM

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFMI)

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Whole Foods Market, Inc. is the food retailer of natural and organic products.

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Environmentally Friendly (23), Nasdaq 100 (99), Grocery Stores (27), Mid Cap (670), Austin (5), Retail (25), Texas (24), Best CEOs 2006 (31), Bought Competitor (13), S&P 500 (482), Organic Foods (5), Dividend (202)
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Whole Foods Market, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price:	$22.71
Last Trade Time:	7/3/2008 1:00 PM
Open:	$0.00
Previous Close:	$22.72
Daily Range:	$22.63 - $23.29
52-Week Range:	$22.72 - $53.65
Volume:	2,400,812
Market Cap:	$3.19B
P/E Ratio:	19.59
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8 Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFMI)

Avatar gopirque (48.30) Submitted: 4/11/08 12:33 AM

I've seen a lot of "hype" about this stock until I was able to see Whole Foods in person. I spent several weeks in Colorado and I am thoroughly impressed with several things about WFMI.

Customer Service: There are many knowledgable people roaming the isles and strategically positioned t...More

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I've seen a lot of "hype" about this stock until I was able to see Whole Foods in person. I spent several weeks in Colorado and I am thoroughly impressed with several things about WFMI.

Customer Service: There are many knowledgable people roaming the isles and strategically positioned throughout the stores. They also had many products setup for taste-testing, allowing skeptics of the health-food craze to be able to taste before taking the plunge of buying.

Store Layout: Whole Foods Markets are very neat, organized, and easy to use. Considering in Denver there are organic and health food stores everywhere, Whole Foods was definately one of the best stores to walk-in first time and find what you were looking for. Most other stores were very small, crampt, and "messy" with the amount of stuff they tried to cram into the isle. (Ironically the only other one that compared was Sunflower Farmers Markets, run by the former CEO of Wild Oats)

Customer Base: Every Whole Foods that we visited was PACKED! People of all walks of life coming and going...we even did most of our grocery shopping there, and we don't have health food stores in PA. I think you have a combo of Experience and Quality when visitng a Whole Foods. You Experience the store...almost the way Starbucks is more than coffee, Whole Foods is more than Organic Food. You also see and buy Quality: we were duly impressed with brand varieties and store brand qualities(Whole Foods Branded Items) in Quality, and prices were very good. Since we don't have any of these store out East, we bought several items to be enjoyed back home, and we will!

Potential: The potential of Whole Foods is phenominal. The financials are great, and now that the CEO has moved on from the faisco late last year, I see Whole Foods continuing to grow out west. Not only that, but the East has hardly any Health Food or Organic Food stores at all. With the above mentioned qualities, I see Whole Foods finding good favor out here; I know we would shop there. The only real future competitor out west was Sunflower...which the stores were nice, smaller, and busy...but I think they will attract more customers from the mainline grocery store than a Whole Foods shopper.

Whole Foods is a great buy in this slump in the economy, and that's why I'm putting my 5 stars on it!!!

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7 Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFMI)

Avatar antichrononology (< 20) Submitted: 2/04/08 11:24 PM

Another boom soon to bust upscale trend market. Trendy customer base lacks loyalty, overhead is too high, sheer cost in waste disposal alone will drive them out of existence. A fad stock, with a fickle customer base, and over inflated expectations. Nothing to like investment wise. There stuffed goos...More

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Recs 1 (WFMI) ongkaili (54.55) Submitted: 7/02/08 11:49 AM : Start Price: $23.03 WFMI Score: 0.25 bought puts on this stock when it was around $28, shortly after their poor earnings and i've made almost a 150% profit until now. why did i buy the puts? lowered demand for organic foods (product) and poor management is a recipe for a medium scaled disaster. i expect this stock to break downwards on next earnings and settle down around the 12-15 range for at least a few months. business is like life; its harder to get back to something than you think. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (WFMI) Wade32ru (38.98) Submitted: 7/01/08 11:39 AM : Start Price: $23.41 WFMI Score: 2.12 Even at these prices, I think this one is still an underperform for the next year or so. Love Whole Foods, but don't have THAT much patience. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (WFMI) JoyofMoney (80.77) Submitted: 7/01/08 12:44 AM : Start Price: $23.23 WFMI Score: 2.00 Another low one, but I think this one is still going down. Paying higher prices for organic food is bad enough to begin with, so when penny pinching becomes in vogue due to the poor consumer confidence out there and the organic stuff becomes more expensive due bad weather conditions like floods - WFMI will have to pass the expense unto the consumer. I know the justification sounds far-fetched, but I just do not have a good feel about this stock. For some reason, I am following that feel. Thanks for 'bearing' with me. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (WFMI) dsage1 (53.22) Submitted: 6/30/08 11:44 PM : Start Price: $23.23 WFMI Score: -2.00 Solid company, great price. Excellent brand & customer service. Continued health trend which should continue with aging population. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (WFMI) manvsmonkey (94.79) Submitted: 6/30/08 2:05 PM : Start Price: $23.81 WFMI Score: 3.16 ok, I like this stock for the long run but for CAPS I'm gonna short it for a while-it's been pulling down my score organic is a luxury when food prices really go up and gas is skyrocketing Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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