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Eric- I contacted Whole Foods and tried to reach a live body (corporate office).  They have various tiers of voice messages that ended in the message "Whole Foods is a decentralized company so most information is handled on a regional or local level."  That said, I have not been given a date or venue at my local store to actually discuss how this works, what success we're having or use my idea as a best practice at this time. I would think if we can actually have a few meetings and write up what we're doing, what's working and the win/win statements to utilize when engaging Whole Foods on a regional or corporate level, that might be more effective. Also, if I hear any names for people at a higher level, I'd be happy to pass them along.  Otherwise, I don't think there's going to be a way to engage them as they have many companies trying on the corporate level and have filters in place for this.   I believe sharing best practices with OH Leaders through the leadership program is a great strategy and may be more effective as a grass roots program than engaging them at a corporate level where they may not see a ROI or value proposition at this time.  Again, once I have meetings going and can share what benefits we are seeing and get the local store management to do the same in terms of incremental revenue, community awareness and involvement or other benefits they are realizing, this may be a great concept to roll out nationally.   I'll keep updating my blog/journal we make more headway.  The last several attempts at engaging the resource I was working with at Whole Foods have not resulted in getting dates, times, etc. for my meetings.   Thanks for checking out my OH group! Mick