Everyone's Going Organic!

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Organic products have seen quite a boom in the past couple of years. It seems that supermarket shelves have been filling up with "organic" products rapidly lately. Of course this is a good thing, and I love the fact that there are organic supermarkets like Trader Joes and Whole Foods out there. Now it seems as if Wal-Mart is seeing the potential profit they can make from this trend.

Of course they're listening. Organic sales have gone up from $1 billion in 1990 to $12.2 billion in 2004 - so going organic is a bona fide moneymaker these days. The thought of organic supermarkets and products have radically changed in the past few years, from crunchy granola-eating hippie, to healthy and open minded. What this will do to the small, family owned "natural food" stores no one really knows, as Whole Foods and the other major retailers haven't really absorbed all corners of the country.