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from General Topics]    • 1  Anyone else heard of this recent
corporate merger? As someone who shops at W.O. when I can afford
it, I am wondering how this wil affect my life in a noticeable
way. There are no Whole Foods near me. Any thoughts?    1. Click
to Upload a photo (10 MB limit)   1. Yeah, my first thought is
"thank goodness, maybe they can get Whole Foods-sized retail
footprints with Wild Oats-style service". Or maybe they'll just
screw both sides of the equation and we'll get Whole Paycheck's
arrogant "of course we have pate -- one whole $9 2oz. blister
package of it!" service and bigeminy-inducing price tags in a
7-11 footprint on every corner. Hopefully Trader Joe's will buy
and decommission both of them, down the road a piece.      That
said, Whole Paycheck does behave very well as corporations go,
and probably has a lot more positive impact on the world at
large than I do. So maybe the economy of scale will be a good
thing. I just ta