Originally Posted by
Adam1222
Well, one rich person in Austin is a libertarian, so. That means something.
you missed the whole foods part?
Originally Posted by
JetAway
Actually, it started as a natural food store a couple of years earlier-different name though. Barrels of nuts, dried fruit oats, etc.
Those were the great and good days when Austin was truly "weird."
wholefoodsmarket.com/company-info/whole-foods-market-history
John Mackey and twenty-one-year-old Renee Lawson (Hardy), borrowed $45,000 from family and friends to open the doors of a small natural foods store called SaferWay in Austin
Two years later, John and Renee partnered with Craig Weller and Mark Skiles to merge SaferWay with their Clarksville Natural Grocery, resulting in the opening of the original Whole Foods Market on September 20, 1980