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- Plastic bags: going, going, go...
- Another small sign that the plastic bag is losing it. It being prominence, or even legal circulation. Plastic bags: how did we live before? Now that upscale, more-organic-than-thou chain of provender providers, Whole Foods, is going to stop using plastic bags at the checkout. ...
- Tags: China, Whole Foods, Trader Joe, Retail, Printers, Taxes, Free Trade, Hardware, Peripherals, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- whole foods' perfect response to IT failure
- Whole Foods' perfect response to IT failureExcellent - but so few...What a great story, shame that other companies don't "get it" that they can GET MORE customers and KEEP the ones they have buy having great customer service!!!!Ramon Ray, Editor & Technology Evangelist, Smallbiztechnology.com
- Tags: Whole Foods, IT Failure, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-12-29
- whole foods' perfect response to IT failure
- Whole Foods, whose forum-crazed CEO prompted an SEC investigation and overly-restrictive corporate Internet policies, has become a model for handling customer service in the wake of an IT failure. This blog often describes situations where IT failures become moneymaking opportunities for vendors. Sometimes...
- Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, Failure, Whole Foods, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-23
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: whole foods bans execs from blogs and chat
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chatWell that will get me to write a letter to Whole FoodsThe policy is illegal on its face. But Whole Foods is a US company started in Texas, where Bush was Governor, so I will cut them a bit...
- Tags: Blogging, Whole Foods, blog, company policy, big business, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: whole foods bans execs from blogs and chat
- Enterprise 2.0 and IT governance have just kissed and jumped. In a Nov. 2 update to its corporate Code of Business Conduct, Whole Foods has banned executives from participating in non-company blogs and chat rooms, except in connection with absolutely personal topics. Clearly, this is an extreme...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Blog, Enterprise 2.0, Whole Foods, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- whole foods bans execs from online forums
- Whole Foods bans execs from online forumsPosting to Forums Affiliated with Press is Legally AllowedJust to clarify. For US citizens, no policy at Whole Earth or elsewhere can stop one from posting online when the forum is affiliated with a press. The reason for this is perhaps not as obvious...
- Tags: Government, Federal government, Food & Beverage, suspicion, democracy, Whole Earth, Whole Foods
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- whole foods CEO sorry for anonymous Web posts
- Whole Foods CEO sorry for anonymous Web postsBig Fish vs little autorny Minow'sMinow is just so wrong. A CEO who is also a US citizen has the right and sometimes duty to publish anonymously when that posting does not involve harassment. That is how the founders of the USA did...
- Tags: Public relations, Business ethics, Web, Whole Foods, Enron Corp., Minow, Big Fish, Minnow
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
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- Powerset shows semantic search solution
- Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Always-on boosted by British government study
- Always-on boosted by British government studyAlways On ... and the Food PoliceWhat happens when the cops show up at the grocery store and arrest you for purchasing that TwinkieR? Or you get a surcharge bill from your insurance company because your food purchases don't match your prescribed diet?Not likely? Well,...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Always-On, insurance company, diet, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- A new robotic tasting device
- According to the latest American Chemical Society ACS Weekly PressPac, French researchers have developed an artificial mouth that chews apples like you and me. Here is a link to this PressPac, from which you'll be able to read a very short note titled 'Munch-o-matic: Scientists develop the artificial mouth.' The...
- Tags: Food, Compound, Hre, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Bottled water and baby bottles: maybe not so good
- Bottled water and baby bottles: maybe not so goodIf given directly to small mammals in large quantities.If you follow the trail to the original research, it was actually a study on mice who were given large quantities of the chemical directly.As far as I know, however, the studies on humans...
- Tags: baby bottle, Bottled Water, not-so
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Calorie Count Plus Toolbar for Internet Explorer (exe)
- Toolbar which allows you to search the Calorie Count Plus databases, containing nutritional information for thousands of foods, healthy recipes and active forum posts. By creating a free account, you can have access to the Eat Meter which tracks your daily caloric intake. Define a daily limit and watch as...
- Tags: Toolbar, Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Calorie-Count
- Software downloads 2008-04-15
- New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and Business
- New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and BusinessVirtual Snake OilEDITA KAYE, THE “SKINNY PILL FOR KIDS,” AND THE ASSOCIATION OF VIRTUAL WORLDSThere is a certain species of entrepreneur that capitalizes on the human desire for overnight solutions to intractable problems. Throughout human history, they have lurked in the shadows of the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurship, SKINNY PILL
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
- An order of fries and a tank of biodiesel to go. You and your car could feed from the same source.
- There're promises that American gasoline prices will be around $4 later this year. Many nations already pay much more than that, but their cars keep on truckin'. So where's the pain point when people will stop driving? Far down the road, I'd predict. People will give...
- Tags: Food, Biodiesel, Golden State Foods, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- The Big Apple bites off Apple logo
- The city of New York has announced that they've got a new logo pictured at right for their GreeNYC campaign. Apple has announced that they're suing The Big Apple because the logo will "seriously injure the reputation which [Apple] has established for its goods and services" reports...
- Tags: Logo, Apple Inc., Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Teens turn deaf ear to risks of MP3 players
- Teens turn deaf ear to risks of MP3 playersI always keep mine lowNot just because loud music hurts, but because it really annoys everyone on the train next to you.I have the 'in-ear' style headphones the ones you have to cram right in your ear and I barely have the...
- Tags: Digital music, Media players, Digital media, MP3, MP3 player, deaf ear, risk
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- Green thinking is well established. Green brands, not so much
- Oh goody, I'm home at my computer on a Saturday night (yes, sad). But, bonanza, I've just hit the jackpot: Some green tech stats for you to contemplate with your Sunday morning coffee! Two sources for you. The first is the third EcoPinion survey from EcoAlign,...
- Tags: Brand, Green Technology, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-15
- Checking the clock for DST is a good reminder for tech product expiration dates
- Various groups use the twice-yearly daylight savings time shift as a reminder to check product expiration dates. While most are about things we eat, drink and apply to ourselves, there are a few items we might want to check in the technology department, including flash cards. My...
- Tags: Card, Solution, Battery, Expiration Date, Camera Battery, Engineering, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Windows: Time to Go on a Diet
- Windows: Time to Go on a Diet...by abandoning WindowsI don't mind Windows, but you're right, it needs to be trimmed, a lot. Maybe the stripped-down Windows project will help.Linux does have less bloat, but[i]I haven't bothered to put together a "Winbloatagraph" equivalent for Linux versions, but I suspect that that...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, KDE 4.0, Microsoft Windows, Diet
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Prevention killing the health care system
- Prevention killing the health care systemPrevention costsThe one change that would have a dramatic impact in lowering health care costs would be to outlaw malpractice cases against hospitals, doctors and drug companies. As an example OBs spend 15-30K per month for insurance.Second, streamline drug development pipelines. five to ten years...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, health care, health care system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
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