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Organic Sales A Worry

1st February, 2009 - Posted by health news - No Comments

We all know just how vital is a healthy diet.; and we know that organic is important.

If you are on a healthy detox – organic is pretty much essential. And even day-to-day, we should minimize the amount of chemical additives we eat. These are known to be higher in non-organic. Reducing these is helpful; and may stop the development of some serious diseases.

Put fewer chemicals in – and the cleansing detox diet becomes less necessary!

Organic? When Times Get Better!
Now there is some bad news for organic food – London’s biggest organic supermarket has seen it’s sales smashed by the credit crunch.

Whole Foods Market in Kensington, London opened in June 2008 hoping for great things. However, sales of their organic foods have disappointed. US Parent company, Fresh and Wild, lost nearly £10m in the year to September 2009, helped by losses from the Kensington store.

The Kensington Whole Foods Market aimed high – some say too high. Their staffing numbers are huge and they employ 55 chefs alone.

Natalie Berg, Planet Retail commented:

"It’s an expensive store in an expensive part of town…. "

Neil Saunders, of retail analyst Verdict said:

"The economics of that store in Kensington just don’t stack up."

Really bad luck that they opened in mid-2008 – just as markets were falling. But for that, maybe they could have been successful selling to the ‘Sloane Rangers’ then expanding over London. This could have helped further the organic boom nationally – and provide more great quality vegetables and fruit for our detoxes.

Fingers Crossed For The Future
But things don’t look good for that store now as the Sloanes are trading down from organic food to non-organic. If the supposedly high-paid won’t dig deep for organic good – will the rest of us?

Maybe they’ll be forced to postpone that healthy detox – or carry it out , heaven forbid,, with non-organic food.