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Whole Foods coming to Ashburn

Discussion in 'Area Restaurants, Dining and Food' started by DanAngie, May 8, 2013.

  1. DanAngie

    DanAngie New Member

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    On their FB page:

    We're thrilled to announce new stores for the following cities: Mobile, AL; Burbank, CA; Los
    Angeles, CA; Longmont, CO; Westminster, CO; Olathe, KS; Portland, OR; Draper, UT; Arlington, VA; and Ashburn,
    VA.

    These stores currently are scheduled to open in fiscal year 2014 and beyond... CONGRATS, and we can't wait be to closer to you all!
     
  2. KTdid

    KTdid Well-Known Member

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    Hopefully replacing another vacant grocery store?
     
  3. mwork

    mwork New Member

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    Oh Happy Day!!!
     
  4. snoopy

    snoopy Senior Member

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    great news !! no more trips to Reston or Fair Oaks for us !!
     
  5. Zeratul

    Zeratul Well-Known Member

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    I think that might be at One Loudoun near the new Soccer stadium and is a new building.
     
  6. Villager

    Villager Ashburn Village Resident

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    It won't be at One Loudoun, as that will have a different - but similar - grocery store.
     
  7. Chsalas

    Chsalas Active Member

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    This is great, no more trips to Fairfax or Clearndon ...
     
  8. foodie

    foodie New Member

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    Thanks.

    I guess my info was correct 8 years ago.;) Apparently, with the slowdown of the economy building was stalled. Originally I had heard when Russell Branch Pkwy. connected to LCP, I believe, was the general area Whole Foods (WF) would like to build. Possibly where the Bloom closed at Belmont Ridge S/C perhaps.

    The Fair Lakes WF is 66,000 square feet with all its separate "quick-serve" restaurant areas. Hopefully, it will be based on the same floor plan and layout at the Fair Lakes location.

    Foodie (Katie);)
     
  9. Chsalas

    Chsalas Active Member

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    I hope it half as nice as the Flagship store in Austin, that place is awe-fing-some!
     
  10. StephNBen

    StephNBen Southern Walk Resident

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    It will be just south of route 7 off (or very near) Claiborne parkway and open first half of 2015.
     
  11. sharse

    sharse TeamDonzi rocks!!

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    Boo. Not a fan of Whole Foods. I WANT TRADER JOES!!!!
     
  12. rich351854

    rich351854 New Member

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    How do you know this?

    I would have thought by the new metro by Home Depot
     
  13. StephNBen

    StephNBen Southern Walk Resident

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    I called and talked to the regional WFs development office.
    I was hoping for the old Bloom location or by the new metro too. But this location should be good, certainly better than Loundoun One, which I think might turn into a traffic nightmare. I've also unofficially heard that MOMs market will be coming to Leesburg, but that is unconfirmed.
     
  14. We Love Disney

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    MOM"s is awesome too! I find for the gluten free products I buy frequently, MOM's is cheaper than Whole Foods! But both are awesome. Not such a fan of Trader Joe's though.
     
  15. snoopy

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    great location ..and easy access from Broadlands !!
     
  16. jblnd

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  17. Mr. Linux

    Mr. Linux Senior Member & Moderator Forum Staff

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    When discussing issues, it's always smart to look at both sides of the argument.
    Whole Foods responds to allegations:

    http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/dispelling-rumors-organics-china
    http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/organic-china-possible
    http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/whole-foods-market-responds-to-wjla
     
  18. jblnd

    jblnd New Member

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    While Whole Foods say the reports were misleading, I have to admit that I don't think the Whole Foods blog is the best place to find accurate information. Everything from their slogan they support the local farmers (not really true when the numbers are run) to their labor issues have been glossed over. Definitely not where I want to spend my money. Wegmans has a much better track record as does Trader Joe's.
     
  19. KTdid

    KTdid Well-Known Member

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    Whole Foods, ironically, did not always support the campaign to label GMO's.

    March 11th, 2013

    New York Times
    By Stephanie Strom

    Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain, on Friday became the first retailer in the United States to require labeling of all genetically modified foods sold in its stores, a move that some experts said could radically alter the food industry.

    A. C. Gallo, president of Whole Foods, said the new labeling requirement, to be in place within five years, came in response to consumer demand. “We’ve seen how our customers have responded to the products we do have labeled,” Mr. Gallo said. “Some of our manufacturers say they’ve seen a 15 percent increase in sales of products they have labeled.”

    Genetically modified ingredients are deeply embedded in the global food supply, having proliferated since the 1990s. Most of the corn and soybeans grown in the United States, for example, have been genetically modified. The alterations make soybeans resistant to a herbicide used in weed control, and causes the corn to produce its own insecticide. Efforts are under way to produce a genetically altered apple that will spoil less quickly, as well as genetically altered salmon that will grow faster. The announcement ricocheted around the food industry and excited proponents of labeling. “Fantastic,” said Mark Kastel, co-director of the Cornucopia Institute, an organic advocacy group that favors labeling.

    The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the trade group that represents major food companies and retailers, issued a statement opposing the move. “These labels could mislead consumers into believing that these food products are somehow different or present a special risk or a potential risk,” Louis Finkel, the organization’s executive director of government affairs, said in the statement.

    Mr. Finkel noted that the Food and Drug Administration, as well as regulatory and scientific bodies including the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association, had deemed genetically modified products safe.

    The labeling requirements announced by Whole Foods will include its 339 stores in the United States and Canada. Since labeling is already required in the European Union, products in its seven stores in Britain are already marked if they contain genetically modified ingredients. The labels currently used show that a product has been verified as free of genetically engineered ingredients by the Non GMO Project, a nonprofit certification organization. The labels Whole Foods will use in 2018, which have yet to be created, will identify foods that contain such ingredients.

    The shift by Whole Foods is the latest in a series of events that has intensified the debate over genetically modified foods. Voters defeated a hard-fought ballot initiative in California late last year after the biotech industry, and major corporations like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, spent millions of dollars to fight the effort. Other initiatives have qualified for the ballot in Washington State and Missouri, while consumers across the country have been waging a sort of guerrilla movement in supermarkets, pasting warning stickers on products suspected of having G.M.O. ingredients from food companies that oppose labeling. Proponents of labeling insist that consumers have a right to know about the ingredients in the food they eat, and they contend that some studies in rats show that bioengineered food can be harmful.

    Gary Hirshberg, chairman of Just Label It, a campaign for a federal requirement to label foods containing genetically modified ingredients, called the Whole Foods decision a “game changer.”

    “We’ve had some pretty big developments in labeling this year,” Mr. Hirshberg said, adding that 22 states now have some sort of pending labeling legislation. “Now, one of the fastest-growing, most successful retailers in the country is throwing down the gantlet.”

    He compared the potential impact of the Whole Foods announcement to Wal-Mart’s decision several years ago to stop selling milk from cows treated with growth hormone. Today, only a small number of milk cows are injected with the hormone.

    Karen Batra, a spokeswoman for BIO, a trade group representing the biotech industry, said it was too early to determine what impact, if any, the Whole Foods decision would have. “It looks like they want to expand their inventory of certified organic and non-G.M.O. lines,” Ms. Batra said. “The industry has always supported the voluntary labeling of food for marketing reasons.”

    She contended, however, that without scientific evidence showing that genetically modified foods caused health or safety issues, labeling was unnecessary.

    Nonetheless, companies have shown a growing willingness to consider labeling. Some 20 major food companies, as well as Wal-Mart, met recently in Washington to discuss genetically modified labeling.

    Coincidentally, the American Halal Company, a food company whose Saffron Road products are sold in Whole Foods stores, on Friday introduced the first frozen food, a chickpea and spinach entree, that has been certified not to contain genetically modified ingredients.

    More than 90 percent of respondents to a poll of potential voters in the 2012 elections, conducted by the Mellman Group in February last year, were in favor of labeling genetically modified foods. Some 93 percent of Democrats and 89 percent of Republicans in the poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent, favored it.

    But in the fight over the California initiative, Proposition 37, the opponents succeeded in persuading voters that labeling would have a negative effect on food prices and the livelihood of farmers.

    That fight, however, has cost food companies in other ways. State legislatures and regulatory agencies are pondering labeling on their own, and consumers have been aggressive in criticizing some of the companies that fought the initiative, using Twitter and Facebook to make their views known.

    Buoyed by what they see as some momentum in the labeling war, consumers, organic farmers and food activists plan to hold an “eat-in” outside the F.D.A.’s offices next month to protest government policies on genetically modified crops and foods. Whole Foods, which specializes in organic products, tends to be favored by those types of consumers, and it enjoys strong sales of its private-label products, whose composition it controls. The company thus risks less than some more traditional food retailers in taking a stance on labeling.

    In 2009, Whole Foods began submitting products in its 365 Everyday Value private-label line to verification by the Non GMO Project.

    But even Whole Foods has not been immune to criticism on the G.M.O. front. A report by Cornucopia, “Cereal Crimes,” revealed that its 365 Corn Flakes line contained genetically modified corn. By the time the report came out in October 2011, the product had been reformulated and certified as organic.

    Today, Whole Foods’ shelves carry some 3,300 private-label and branded products that are certified, the largest selection of any grocery chain in the country.

    Mr. Gallo said Whole Foods did not consult with its suppliers about its decision and informed them of it only shortly before making its announcement Friday. He said Whole Foods looked forward to working with suppliers on the labeling.

    http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/03/major-grocer-to-label-foods-with-gene-modified-content/?gclid=CJmVwZTribcCFUOe4AodiWQAoQ
     
  20. StephNBen

    StephNBen Southern Walk Resident

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    If you don't like Whole Foods, then it's simple, don't shop there. I wouldn't buy frozen produce from China either, but Whole Foods does label everything, so just check the labels. For me, Whole Foods is one of several stores I shop at to get the foods we need and I am beyond thrilled to have them opening a store up the road!
     

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