It’s Back to School Time!

by winston-salem, August 25, 2009 | Permalink

It’s Back-to-School time at Whole Foods Market! Come in and check out our colorful variety of eco-friendly backpacks, PVC-free lunch boxes and stainless steel water bottles. Looking for healthy, nutritious snacks and lunch items to fill those lunch boxes? Well look no further—our grocery department is stocked full of delicious, organic, kid-friendly snacks and lunch items. Need advice on how to create more nutritious lunches for your growing scholars? Grab a copy of Lunch Lessons

written by Whole Foods’ own Chef Ann Cooper and co-author Lisa Holmes. It’s a valuable source of information on how to guide your children toward a life-long relationship with healthy eating. Go one step further and reach out to children in our community by becoming a Backpack Buddy. Whole Foods Market has teamed with Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina to play a part in ending childhood hunger by asking customers to purchase and donate nutritious food items for elementary school children. The donated food items will be used to fill backpacks which will be distributed for the children to take home over the weekends. Visit the store for a list of needed items as well as full instructions on how you can donate.

Pro Bar

by winston-salem, June 18, 2009 | Permalink

You must try the new Pro Bar in our Whole Body department. They are decadent like a dessert but actually meal replacement bars due to their caloric content. Pro Bar is made from whole, organic, raw foods and are 100 percent vegan. Unlike most rock-hard energy and meal replacement bars, this soft chewy bar doesn’t contain unrecognizable, hard-to-pronounce ingredients. The flavors, like Cherry Pretzel, Cocoa Pistachio, Koka Moka and Nutty Banana Boom, are most intriguing. So, if you have to skip a meal or need to refuel after a great work out, check out Pro Bar.

This Father’s Day

by winston-salem, June 5, 2009 | Permalink

Another holiday is fast approaching. Father’s Day is Sunday, June 21^st and, like many of us, you still need to find Dad a gift. So what do you get the man who means the world to you? Dress socks? A tie? Nose hair clippers…YUCK! Nothing says, “I love you” like a fresh pair of tighty whities! No, those just won’t do. For a change of pace try a delicious steak or filet of salmon instead. Another nice fit, pun intended, are the Okabashi sandals (only $12.99), which are endorsed by the American Chiropractic Association and made of 15% recyclable materials. Feeling lucky? Post a Father’s Day idea on the Whole Story blog for a chance to win a $100 Whole Foods Market Gift Card. Whatever you decide, get inspired and think outside the box.

TOMS shoes

by winston-salem, May 6, 2009 | Permalink

Have you heard about TOMS shoes (not to be confused with Tom’s of Maine – dental products). Maybe you’ve seen the AT&T commercial featuring TOM founder, Blake Mycoskie, who runs TOMS completely on his Blackberry PDA (Look mom no computer!). Perhaps you’re familiar with their promise: “For every pair you purchase TOM’s will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. One for One.” Still not ringing a bell? Well, then it’s time for you to get over to our Whole Body department and try on a pair for yourself. The shoes come in a variety of colors and sizes and our store has the widest selection to choose from in Winston. They’re stylish, comfortable, and affordable… they’re TOMS.

Visit TOMS website and find out “WHY SHOES?”

Support Local. Reach Global.

by winston-salem, April 7, 2009 | Permalink

These past couple of months has been very exciting here at our store. A very unique opportunity arose for us to form a partnership with a local volunteer organization called the Amani Children’s Foundation. This is a volunteer group birthed right here in Winston-Salem with the express purpose of serving infants, orphaned by AIDS, in Africa. Currently, Africa has the highest rate of orphans anywhere in the world, two million of which are in Kenya alone. By creating a partnership with Amani our customers and Team Members have had the opportunity to rescue these children from abandonment while providing a safe home and nourishment. Other than donations, Amani Beads are the main form of financial support for the foundation. Unique, handcrafted beads are created in Africa and shipped to Amani where local volunteers make them into necklaces. These necklaces are of very high quality and no two are alike. Exclusively at our store, you can purchase these necklaces and 100% of the proceeds from the sale go to Amani.

In addition to carrying these exclusive necklaces, on March 28 our store held a 5% day where 5% of our store sales were donated to Amani. Thanks to our customers and Team Members shopping that day, we raised a total amount of $2,700! It’s amazing to see how that supporting local we can reach global. A big THANK YOU goes out to everyone involved in making this partnership and the events surrounding it happen. To find out more about Amani Children’s Foundation, visit their website at amanichildren.org and be sure to check out the Amani Beads display in our Whole Body department the next time you visit.

A Sign of the Times

by winston-salem, March 28, 2009 | Permalink

Welcome to the store blog for Whole Foods Market Winston-Salem! We are really excited to have this new avenue for getting the word out to everyone. Perhaps the best feature of all is we get to hear back from you, our customers.

I want to kick off our very first posting by focusing on some great improvements that we have made in the recent months. As you might be aware, at Whole Foods Market we are really big on communicating to our customers about the products and promotions in our store. There are many colorful signs placed throughout the store to educate our customers about our quality standards, local farmers, food ingredients, organic products and even sales specials; if it’s important we’ll tell you. In order to further our communication, on a much broader scale, we are sprinting to online resources. We started by updating our store web calendar and it’s only increased from there. Since January 2009 we have launched a flickr photo album, facebook group, updated our community giving and of course this blog. If you haven’t checked any of these out, then now is the time. RSS feeds are a very convenient way to keep up today with the flickr album and our web calendar because they can link with your email account. With facebook just sign up for an account (if you don’t already have one) and become a fan of our group. Happy surfing and stay tuned for our next posting!