Submitted by bizgrrl on Tue, 2010/06/15 - 8:47am
Greenlife Grocery near downtown Chattanooga has been purchased by Whole Foods, a popular Austin, TX, natural and organic foods grocer. This is the fifth Whole Foods store in Tennessee.
John Mackey, a 27 year old college drop-out, along with two others opened the original Whole Foods in 1980. They began expanding the business in 1984.
Side story:
Greenlife Grocery has a roof top garden created and cared for by Earth's Harmony Landscaping. Earth’s Harmony Landscaping is a chemical free landscaping company that uses organic fertilizers and as much local plant and other materials as is available. The landscaping company specializes in edible landscaping, native plants, vegetable gardening, and traditional landscaping using sustainable and respectable eco-friendly methods.
How cool is that?
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They can keep their
They can keep their Chinese-sourced "organics." I will stick with the Co-op, Farmer's Market, and EarthFare.
frankly, whole foods can keep
frankly, whole foods can keep their predatory acquisitions policy out of tennessee. i'll go with the food coop (hopefully they'll remain independent), the various farmers' markets, and pratt's which tries to buy local or regional produce - but occasionally doesn't succeed.
Where is pratts?
Where is pratts?
Pratt's Country Store
Gosh, Bob, you must be new 'round here. Since 1923...
Pratt's Country Store
3100 Tazewell Pike
Knoxville, TN 37918
http://www.knoxvillebusiness.com/pratts-country-store.html
Is it at the intersection
Is it at the intersection where you turn right and go out towards Beverly park? I've driven by, but never stopped.
You know how it is when you live in suburban Rocky Hill. There just ain't much reason to leave.
I've not been to the new SuperKroger in Fountain City yet either. Looks like I've got a day of sightseeing and lunch at Littons ahead of me.
Looks like I've got a day of
Don't forget the Creamery (now the Creamery Grill) on Hotel Ave. and Fountain City diner, right across from Pratt's. Their homemade chicken pot pie is about the best I've ever eaten. Their breakfasts are good, too.
While you're in the area, be sure to drive down Gibbs and see some of the beautiful 1920s and 1930s homes.
Gibbs Street? I used to work
Gibbs Street? I used to work the area out Tazewell Pike near Gibbs High School.
It used to tickle me how some of these guys viewed wealth. I would commonly be hauling around 250,000 dollars worth of cattle sperm at a time and those boys wouldn't think twice about the worth. It was just a thing.
Gibbs and Corryton are their own worlds.
it's Gibbs Drive, just north
it's Gibbs Drive, just north of the new Kroger on Broadway, in Fountain City.
Humbug!
Gibbs Road.
That's what it was when I was growing up in Fountain City.
Dunno when theystarted running around calling roads drives and streets lanes.
Probably 9-1-1. Where I grew
Probably 9-1-1. Where I grew up there were around 20 Penn Roads. They had to rename each one of them and only one got to remain "Penn Road." They actually went to court over it.
Over on my end of town...
...Merchants Road and Callahan Road became "drives" when they achieved "interstate exit" status, off of I-75.
I live on a "road" now and I'll bristle if any of these snooty types moving into subdivisions up and down the "road" should suggest that it is anything else.
We still get considerable traffic from farm tractors and I like that very much, thank you.
(I'm off-topic. Carry on.)
and avenues streets. remember
and avenues streets. remember main.
I've lived here off and on
I've lived here off and on for many years and never heard of Pratt's:)
Service, service
Oh, yeah. So far as I know, you can still call in your order, too, and they'll have it boxed and waiting for you to pick up.
Also, if you're say, ordering a buncha beans to can and don't want to spend the time to break and string them, they'll do it for you for a small surcharge (I've never asked for that service, but I have a cousin who does).
They're all about service! Lovely plants and flowers, too.
I give credit to Food City
I give credit to Food City for having local produce in season. They have displays set up at some (all?) of their area stores right now featuring local produce.
Points off, though, for having a big local produce tent sale at their new Maryville store while the Maryville farmer's market was underway.
I love the farmers' markets
I love the farmers' markets and co-op and those are my first stops for most things, produce especially. But if there was a Whole Foods in town it would be my next stop after. (A spot currently shared by Earth Fare/Kroger/Target.) John Mackey's libertarian politics aside, Whole Foods is a nice store. I miss it. And the one I went to in NYC always had a good selection of local stuff in the produce section, basically whatever was in season. I'd take it over Earth Fare any day, both price- and selection-wise.
The sourcing is the problem
The sourcing is the problem with Whole Foods. Vegetarians aside (or on the side with a hollandaise sauce), they sell dubious fish and even more dubious "store brands."
When Earth Fare first came to
When Earth Fare first came to town they had very few store brand items. They have many now. I have wondered about their origin.
I can believe that. I just
I can believe that. I just doubt it's more dubious than Kroger, where I already shop. (Have not researched Earth Fare on that front.) Of course, I don't buy much by way of fish or meat anyway, and what I do buy I try to go for branded/healthy/as-green-as-possible etc.
I would love if my favorite...
store, Wild Oats, would come to town...that and Costco, cause I just can't stand Whole Foods and Walmart/Sam's Club. I really like Three Rivers but hate their parking situation until they move to the new location. Wish I had a timeline on that.
EDIT: and another thing. I sure do wish Earth Fare would open a store on the North/East side of town...I hate that long drive to West Knoxville. /grumble...grumble
Wild Oats was bought out by
Wild Oats was bought out by Whole Foods some time ago.
Well darn...
Wild Oats was independent when I lived in New Mexico...dang it.
We are lucky to have
We are lucky to have EarthFare, which has a state-of-the-art stance on green equity issues. Whole Foods. Not. So. Much. They are heavily anti-union and they also regularly source their "organics" through several well-known "greenwashing" outfits.
I like Earth Fare...
I just wish I didn't have to drive so dang far to go grocery shopping. I have a low emission Ford Ranger, but still...having an Earth Fare on the north or east side of town would be much better for the environment from a carbon emission point-of-view.
And I REALLY wish we had SOME kind of competition for Sam's Club/Walhell in this town.
Wish I had a timeline on
Wish I had a timeline on that.
I believe they plan to start construction pretty soon.
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