The history of Whole Foods would take a whole week to get into. But briefly, where did founders Mackey and Hardy (owners of Safer Way Natural Foods), and Weller and Skiles (owners of Clarksville Natural Grocery), open the first location in 1980?

The gang opened the first Whole Foods in Austin in 1980 with a staff of only 19 people. Because there were only a very small number of natural food stores in the U.S., it did very well almost immediately.

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