Whole Foods Market Inc.

Whole Foods net income, revenue soar in 2nd quarter; raises guidance. Whole Foods Market Inc. said stronger sales helped more than double its second-quarter net income as shoppers flocked to the natural and organic grocery chain.

Whole Foods 2nd-quarter results in summary. NET INCOME: Whole Foods Market Inc. earned $67.5 million, or 39 cents per share for the quarter.

As farmers and home gardeners set out their tomatoes this spring, plant experts offered suggestions for preventing another outbreak of late blight, which destroyed millions of dollars worth of tomatoes in the eastern U.S. last year.

Plant experts recommend farmers, gardeners take steps to avoid another tomato blight outbreak. As farmers and home gardeners set out their tomatoes this spring, plant experts offered suggestions for preventing another outbreak of late blight, which destroyed millions of dollars worth of tomatoes in the eastern U.S. last year.

Wall Street held onto most of its previous day?s big gain Tuesday, while the gold and materials sector kept the TSX in positive territory. . Today on Stockhouse

Business events and economic reports scheduled for the coming week. MONDAY, May 10

Major companies tentatively scheduled to report quarterly results during week of 5/10/2010. Major companies tentatively scheduled to report quarterly earnings next week:

A volcano erupts in Iceland, and the effects ripple around the globe: A mom in Romania frets about making her son's wedding in Texas. A florist in New York worries shipments won't arrive. Patients awaiting treatment in Nigeria have to wait another week for the doctors.

Volcano illustrates world's interconnectedness, disrupts weddings, commerce, millions of lives. A volcano erupts in Iceland, and the effects ripple around the globe: A mom in Romania frets about making her son's wedding in Texas. A florist in New York worries shipments won't arrive. Patients awaiting treatment in Nigeria have to wait another week for the doctors.

Farmworkers try to persuade Fla.-based supermarket chain Publix to pay penny more for tomatoes. After persuading McDonald's, Whole Foods and Subway that they should pay an extra penny per pound for tomatoes, a farmworkers group is taking on supermarket giant Publix.

Police: NJ teen used microphone to tell blacks to leave Whole Foods, similar to Walmart case. Police in northern New Jersey say a 14-year-old girl grabbed a supermarket microphone and announced, "All blacks leave the store."

Lee Lynch waxes nostalgically about the food co-op. It?s very strange to think of food co-ops as part of the good old days. To me, the good old days happened back in my mother?s youth ? and she was born over 100 years ago. When I came of age in the 1960s, the world was being reinvented by kids like me. At least we thought we were more clever than anyone had ever been before. We thought our ideas were new. We thought we could bring about world peace, end poverty, eradicate injustice, feed the hungry and take back the means of production from the corporate blue meanies. In New Haven, as in most places, the food co-op started small. The lesbian-and-straight-feminist collective where I lived joined forces with the mixed-female-and-male-straight commune around the corner plus some alternative culture strays, and turned the basement of the Unitarian Church into a food store on Saturday mornings. A few members ? that would not include me ? hit the produce wholesalers at the crack of dawn and

Product recalls this week include children's books, furniture, coats, bikes. Recalled products this week include children's books with foam bindings that could detach and pose a choking hazard. Also on the list are wood furniture with coatings that could have high levels of lead, and women's coats that don't meet flammability standards.

They're as much a part of New York as bagels or the Empire State Building, but traditional pickled cucumbers are disappearing -- leaving aficionados with a sour taste.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will cut food prices and mount a new ad campaign over the next six weeks, a threat to other U.S. grocers that sent an industry shares index down more than 2 percent on Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will cut food prices and mount a new ad campaign over the next six weeks, a threat to other U.S. grocers that sent an industry shares index down more than 2 percent on Friday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whole Foods Market Inc <WFMI.O> investors will vote on Monday on a proposal that would make it easier for shareholders to oust a director whose conduct they deem inappropriate.

Wal-Mart's 4Q profit rises 22 pct; company's US namesake stores see sales fall for first time. After nearly 50 years of hammering competitors with discounts, Wal-Mart is getting a taste of its own medicine.

Deere, Walgreen, ArvinMeritor, Whole Foods, OfficeMax among big market movers Wednesday. Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

Whole Foods COO and Co-President Walter Robb discusses the organic business. The core business at Whole Foods is organic and natural foods. As the popularity of such foods grew, so did the competition.