Organic Albion

摘要

Think Harrods food hall, with its oyster and champagne bars, sushi counter and mile-long charcuterie. Add granola, a DJ, a poetry corner and hordes of young shoppers with name tags who speed-date up and down the escalators while filling their trolleys with organic treats. The latest American assault on British retailing conies not from the likes of Wal-Mart, with its sell-'em-cheap philosophy, but from Whole Foods Market, the world's largest natural-foods chain. In June it will open for business in an art-deco palace in London's Kensington High Street.