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# Letter: Whole Foods Parking Lot Tree Removal in Venice
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/091308-story-20080913-10/
- Published: 2008-09-13T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T21:01:22.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Venice, #archive-import

“OVER GREED-IFICATION IS MORE LIKE it. I was working with Treesavers of Santa Monica. I came back to Venice one day to find to my shock and disgust that Whole Foods had massacred every tree in that parking lot on Lincoln and Rose, and for design purposes according to their spokesperson. Sound familiar? I will never shop at Whole Foods anywhere, nor the adjacent stores here in Venice, in memory of those trees.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 13, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091308.pdf?ref=smdp.com)