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.   Tour dates for January 2010 and beyond are now available.

Events

• Sunday November 15th

  Nordic Naturals Product Demonstration

  11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free

  A representative from Nordic Naturals will be in the Whole Body department to introduce you to their line of fish oil products.  Discover how Nordic Naturals' Orange or Peach Cod Liver Oil can help you to maintain a healthy heart, mood, mind, skin and hair.   Learn more about Children's DHA, a product that can help keep kids focused and visionary health.  There will be free samples for you to try so that you can find the one that works best for you.

• November 23rd - November 29th

  Thanksgiving Week - Store Hours

  Thanksgiving Week Hours

  Monday November 23^rd - 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.

  Tuesday November 24^th - 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.

  Wednesday November 25^th - Extended Hours -  7 a.m. - 10 p.m.

  Thursday November 26^th - Thanksgiving Day - 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

  Friday November 27^th - Late Opening - 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.

  Saturday November 28^th - 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.

  Sunday November 29^th - 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Notices

Gimme 5 Comes to Wynnewood! 

Great news for people who like to recycle! Whole Foods Market Wynnewood is pleased to be now recycling #5 plastic.  This #5 plastic is commonly used in containers for yogurt, cottage cheese, hummus, medicine bottles, etc.  Your containers must be rinsed clean in order to be recycled.  We are also accepting Preserve toothbrushes and razors as well as Brita water filters for the Gimme 5 program.  The clean containers may have to be stored for several weeks in a warehouse which is why it is so important for them to be clean.  We'll send the plastic to Preserve, who make recycled household products including toothbrushes, razors, tableware, and kitchen products. When they get it, the plastic is ground up and turned into clean plastic pellets. The pellets are then sent to Preserve's manufacturing facilities to be transformed into new Preserve products. Obviously, when you choose to purchase Preserve stuff that closes the loop on the whole recycling chain. How cool is that?  Please bring your clean #5 plastics to the store, the bin is conveniently located in the dairy section next to the egg case, or you can drop them off at customer service.  Thanks!

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 consumption in Ireland, after a 15-cent bag tax was introduced: 90
• Annual revenue generated by Irish bag tax: €10,000,000
• Reduce, reuse, rejoice!
• Number of discarded plastic bags prevented by the Irish bag tax, annually: 1,000,000,000

* Source: www.myownbag.com/activism.html