Store calendar

Custom Store Tours

Please contact Ruth Harp at 610-896-8134 or at ruth.harp@wholefoods.com to schedule a tour for yourself or a group you are involved with.  Tours are free and can be customized to meet the needs of the attendees.  Topics range from Smart Shopping - Finding Value at Whole Foods Market, Green Living, Healthy Eating, Special Diets, Gluten Free and more.

Upcoming Events

Friday, June 15th - Monday, June 18th

Vitamix Roadshow

The Vitamix blender is one of the best investments you will ever make for your kitchen!  See for yourself the amazing amount of versatility this powerful kitchen tool will bring to your everyday meals.  A Vitamix representative will be in the store demonstrating this wondrous machine and sampling a variety of recipes. This is an opportunity you won’t want to miss!

Notices

Recycle Your Old Cell Phones With Secure The Call

Please bring your old cell phones to be recycled and keep them from ending up in a land fill. Secure The Call is an all volunteer, non-profit organization that takes your donated phone and redistributes free used cell phones to the community for the purpose of calling 911 in the case of an emergency. The organization carefully wipes out all of your personal information on your cell phone, then reprograms it so that the phone to call 911-only, and tests them to make sure they work before shipping them out. The phones are distributed to partner organizations such as women's shelters, senior citizen centers, sheriff and police departments and school systems.

Paper, Plastic or Re-usable?

Plastic Bag Consumption

• Year that plastic grocery bags were introduced at supermarkets: 1977
• Estimated number of all types of plastic bags used each year, world-wide: 4,000,000,000,000
• Number of plastic shopping bags used each year, in the US alone: 14,000,000,000
• Percentage of plastic bags returned for recycling: 1%
• Annual cost to US retailers for giving away "free" bags: $4,000,000,000
• Barrels of oil required for US annual plastic bag consumption: 12,000,000
• Number of marine animals killed each year due to plastic bags: 100,000
• Average number of pieces of plastic in each square mile of ocean: 46,000

Paper Bag Consumption

• Number of paper bags consumed each year, in the US alone: 10,000,000,000
• Number of trees cut down for paper bag consumption, in the US: 14,000,000

Plastic Bags vs. Paper Bags

• Plastic bag production creates less waste than paper. However, plastic bags remain with us for a long, long time.
• Percentage energy savings in making plastics bags, rather than paper bags: 40
• Percentage in air pollution reduction from making plastic bags: 50
• Percentage of waste water reduced by making plastic bags: 94
• Number of years for a plastic bag to biodegrade as litter: 20
• Number of months for a paper bag to biodegrade as litter: 1
• Estimated number of years for a plastic bag to biodegrade in a landfill: 1,000
• Number of years for a paper bag to biodegrade in a landfill: centuries

Plastic Bag Tax in Ireland

• Charging for shopping bags dramatically reduces bag consumption.
• Percentage of litter in Ireland due to plastic bags, before bag tax: 5
• Percentage drop in plastic bag con