Problems for Organic Food
February 26, 2009 by admin
Filed under Health and Fitness
We all know just how vital is a healthy diet.; and, similarly, we know that for our food to be organic is important – or very important.
If you are on a healthy detox – organic is pretty much essential. And even day-to-day, we should reduce to a minimum the additives in our diet – fertilizer residues, pesticides, etc. These are known to be more in non-organic. Reducing these is helpful; and may stop the development of some serious diseases.
Put fewer chemicals in – and the healthy detox becomes less necessary!
Organic? When Times Get Better!
Now there is some bad news for organic food – London’s biggest organic supermarket has seen it’s sales smashed by the credit crunch.
Whole Foods Market in Kensington, London opened in June 2008 hoping for great things. However, sales of their organic foods have disappointed. US Parent company, Fresh and Wild, lost nearly ?10m in the year to September 2009, helped by losses from the Kensington store.
The Kensington Whole Foods Market aimed high – some say too high. Their staff numbers 500 and includes over 50 high paid cooking staff.
Natalie Berg, Planet Retail commented:
“It’s an expensive store in an expensive part of town…. ”
Neil Saunders, of retail analyst Verdict said:
“The economics of that store in Kensington just don’t stack up.”
What bad timing that the bad times hit just after their opening. But for that, maybe they could have been successful selling to the ‘Sloane Rangers’ then expanding over London. This could have helped further the organic boom nationally – and provide more great quality vegetables and fruit for our detoxes.
Organic Looks Dodgy
But things don’t look good for that store now as the Sloanes are trading down from organic food to non-organic. If those wealthy folks are doing it – it’s bound to spread.
Maybe they’ll need to delay that healthy detox – or carry it out (hopefully not), with non-organic food.
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