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# Venice Save Wild Oats Markets!
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/venice-save-wild-oats-markets-editor/
- Published: 2007-03-09T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:13:04.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import

*By Jerry Rubin Santa Monica*

Although I appreciate Whole Foods Markets, I was sad to learn of their Wild Oats Markets acquisition.

I hope both Wild Oats Markets in Satna Monica will remain, but particularly the one at Fifth and Wilshire beca-sue of its downtown location and easy accessibility.

I would like to pint out that every Tuesday Wild Oats offeres a 10 percent discount for senior citizens. Whole Foods does not.

The 5th and Wilshire Wild Oats also has a community meeting room. The Whole Food on Wilshire does not.

I appreciate the friendly and helpful employees at Wild Oats and I wish that their jobs and Wild Oats will remain.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 9, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030907.pdf?ref=smdp.com)