Exhibit 3(i).1.(b)


Certificate of Correction to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation

 
                          CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION OF
              AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
                            WILD OATS MARKETS, INC.
                 FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF DELAWARE
                              ON OCTOBER 28, 1996

     Wild Oats Markets, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
certifies as follows:

     1.   The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed
with the Secretary of State of Delaware on May 31, 1996 under the name "WO
Holdings, Inc."

     2.   An Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was filed with
the Secretary of State of Delaware on October 28, 1996 under the name Wild Oats
Markets, Inc. (the "Restated Certificate").

     3.   The Restated Certificate requires correction as permitted by
subsection (f) of Section 103 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.

     4.   The errors to be corrected in the Restated Certificate are as follows:

          (a) The number of shares of capital stock authorized to be issued by
the Corporation in paragraph A of Article IV should be Twenty-five Million
(25,000,000) shares of which Twenty Million (20,000,000) shares shall be Common
Stock and Five Million (5,000,000) shares shall be Preferred Stock.  The Common
Stock shall have a par value of $.001 per share and the Preferred Stock shall
have a par value of $.001 per share.

     5.   Accordingly, paragraph A of Article IV of the Restated Certificate are
corrected to read as follows:

          "(a)  CLASSES OF STOCK.  This corporation is authorized to issue two
classes of stock to be designated, respectively, "Common Stock" and "Preferred
Stock."  The total number of shares which the corporation is authorized to issue
is Twenty-five Million (25,000,000) of which Twenty Million (20,000,000) shares
shall be Common Stock and Five Million (5,000,000) shares shall be Preferred
Stock.  The Common Stock shall have a par value of $.001 per share and the
Preferred Stock shall have a par value of $.001 per share."

     In Witness Whereof, the undersigned has executed this Certificate of
Correction on the 9th day of January, 1997.

                               Wild Oats Markets, Inc.


                               By: /s/ Mary Beth Lewis
                                   ____________________________________________
                                   Mary Beth Lewis, Chief Financial Officer