[pct-l] Big GORP News

[cmkudija at ca.rr.com]

If the FTC lets them (anti-trust hearings are proceeding).

But - interesting, back-to-topic bit of information: John Mackey, Whole
Foods CEO (and internet Wild-Oats bashing bad boy) is a PCTA member and
donor!

So if he makes more bucks, he can donate more, right???

One can dream...

Christine "Ceanothus" Kudija
PCT partially '94

www.pcta.org
Join Now!

Ceanothus (see-ah-no-thus) or California lilac:  Shrubs or small trees,
often with divaricate, sometimes spiny, twigs...[flowers] small but showy,
white to blue or purplish, sometimes lavender or pinkish, borne in terminal
or lateral panicles or umbellike cymes.
                                                               Philip A.
Munz
                                                               A California
Flora, U.C. Press, 1973


-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]On
Behalf Of JD Schaefer
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 9:24 PM
To: Tortoise
Cc: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net; hiker97 at aol.com
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Big GORP News

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
>
><> He who finishes last, wins! <>
>
>I switched to Mac OSX rather than fight Windows
>Using Mozilla Thunderbird  http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
>
>
>
>hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>>-----------------------------------------
>>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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