Cramer said he'd also buy No. 2 performer Whole Foods (WFMI), which "has been stalled here after that great quarter.

Oh, one last one: Whole Foods (WFMI) strikes, and I am, again, blown out by my friend Danny Meyer's suggestion that hospitality trumps in a recession. (He's the New York restaurateur who wrote a fabulous business book, Setting the Table, as well as the man who provides the great food at Citifield, where the Mets play.) WFMI is the most expensive place to buy food, and it's up.

Whole Foods has an excellent following and executes business very well. Favorite market for food.

During Monday's "Final Trade" segment, Karen Finerman said she is a buyer of puts in Whole Foods (WFMI).

STRENGTH

Whole Foods (WFMI) faces challenging fundamentals in the gourmet grocery business. In its glory days, when Whole Foods was renowned for gobbling up whole paychecks, its stock traded at three times the current multiple of about 21 times 2010 earnings of 92 cents per share. While those profits represent a 27% rise over 2009, the shares looks expensive considering Whole Foods' geographic expansion and tough competition in a low-margin business. While the stock, at 1.7 times book value, is trading below the S&P average of two times, it is not producing free cash flow per share. "Whole Foods is a broken growth stock," says Lew Piantedosi, co-manager of the Eaton Vance Large-Cap Growth fund (EALCX). "I would not pay 20 times earnings for this company. It is not likely to have the growth profile going forward that it had in the past."

The turn right now seems more Whole Foods (WFMI) than McDonald's, but Starbucks is clearly more transferable worldwide. Shrink to grow, so to speak.

Green Equity Investors has agreed to vote for any mergers recommended by the board of Whole Foods. It has also agreed to vote all its shares in favor of the directors nominated by the board. Green Equity holds a 17.3% stake in the natural-foods chain.

From a recent Mad Money show:"Here's a stock that's almost doubled. That says to me, sell, sell, sell. Let's take profits in Whole Foods."

Whole foods is great

always goes down too

Their run is over

I like this as a short. Who wants to pay the xtra $$$ for Whole Foods?

Consumer weakness

Long struggle

Whole Paycheck Market

Overpriced.

lost 7K

though oats went through, too few area to grow into, with housing and stock issues here and getting worse $21/lb may see few takers

rip off artists and scammers