Talk:Wild Oats Markets

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BetacommandBot 04:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

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Buyout then resell?
Can someone clarify what happened to the $565MM? Whole Foods bought out Wild Oats,  then had to let it go? Sounds like they got shnarfted by the court. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ace Rutherfords (talk • contribs) 19:16, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Current status of Wild Oats Market chain
This article really needs to be updated so as to inform the reader as to what has happened with the chain since Whole Foods agreed to sell the intellectual property of Wild Oats Markets to Luberski Inc. in 2010. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that before Whole Foods lost in the appeals court, it had already either re-branded or shut down all the Wild Oats Market stores. But what does the sale of the intellectual property to Luberski Inc. at mean? Does that mean Luberski Inc. will be recreating the Wild Oats chain? Are all former Wild Oats Market stores that where not simply closed down not sold back to Luberski Inc and are now simply Whole Foods stores? How was Whole Foods able subsume Wild Oats Market when the governments appeals had not run out? I would have thought the court would have granted a stay of the merger while the government appealed. --Notcharliechaplin (talk) 11:34, 10 March 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ if i missed anything, feel free to add. FriarTuck1981 (talk) 05:09, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Current status of Wild Oats Market chain
It does not appear Wild Oats is still listed on the NASDAQ. New information can be found in this article dated April 9, 2014: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-walmart-wildoats-20140409,0,5391307.story — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.193.35.177 (talk) 09:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Things missing from the article or needing more detail
Some info that should be in the body of the article: --Notcharliechaplin (talk) 22:13, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The number of stores with the Wild Oats Market brand name that are currently (as of June, 2018) operating.
 * The number of Wild Oats Markets operating in 2007 when Whole Foods attempted to merge with them and how that number differs today (I assume the number is much less).
 * I believe a number of Wild Oats Markets where closed down, property sold off so we should include at least some mention of that. We don't need to list every closed Wild Oats Markets during the attempted merger but at least mention that this was the fate x number of stores and maybe sone other related details such if they mostly took place in areas already having a Whole Foods.
 * If some Wild Oats Markets stores where converted to Whole Foods Stores but later sold off as part of the forced sale of Wild Oats Markets, after the merger approval was overturned by the appeals court, then this should be included in the article.
 * The history section stops in 2001. We should include the above suggested info in paragraph or two about what happened to Wild Oats Market after the merger deal was overturned by the appeals court.
 * The article mentions in the intro that Luberski Inc. (d.b.a. as Hidden Villa Ranch),bought it from whole foods then, later sold it in 2012 The Yucaipa Companies, but nowhere in the article does it mention that. The content in the intro/lead is supposed to summarize the article itself, unless the article is currently just a stub, which this one is not. Thus, we need to mention this info in the history section as I already suggested, and go into greater detail where possible.

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