Jim is our Store Supplies and Services Specialist for Whole Foods Market’s Rocky Mountain Region.

Our 30th birthday celebration got me thinking about some of the great green changes we’ve implemented over the years: buying in bulk (reduced packaging), company-wide recycling programs, composting, wind and solar power and eliminating plastic bags. While all of those things (and more that I didn’t mention) are great, I’m even more excited about what we can do in the next 30 years!

What you may not think about is that those big changes all started out with a lot of research, trial and error, and working with suppliers and experts to figure out how to make change happen. And that’s exactly what we are doing currently with Styrofoam trays. Now, I don’t have a big announcement to make. We are in the trial stages on this, but I thought you might be interested in reading about some of the process involved with assessing our options. A good thing about Whole Foods Market is that we invest the time, energy and dollars into making change happen. Once we get things going, other retailers come on board and we’ve changed the way business operates. Read the rest of this entry »