How do the fruits and vegetables you buy stack up against other produce? Are those flowers really the best you can get? Whole Foods is trying to answer some of those questions for customers with its new “responsibly grown” labeling system that ranks produce and plants at its stores, based on how suppliers farm those products. [More]
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Whole Foods Introduces Produce Ranking System Based On Suppliers’ Farming Tactics
By Mary Beth Quirk 10.15.14
Airlines Perform Worse, Passengers File Fewer Complaints
By Laura Northrup 4.7.14
If you have very, very low standards, you’re seldom disappointed, right? That seems to be reason for Americans’ attitudes toward airlines. As an annual independent study of airlines’ relative crappiness shows that airlines are doing worse on quality measures like number of bags lost, number of flights that arrived on time, and other measures of things that can make flying a miserable experience. [More]