How I spent $300 at the Whole Foods Supermarkets in Massachusetts (and lived to tell about it)

[hinckley buzzard]

Thanks for the recon. Now I won't ever have to waste my money there! The worst part of the Whole Foods scam is that the food is the same as anywhere else, nutrition-wise. Of course I guess if you just have to have Norwegian-style goat cheese and arugula for your salad, knock yourself out. Chacun a son gout.

[smokingfrog]

Check your receipt. They probably charged you 20 bucks for the paper bags.

[OCCASparky]

$323 at Whole Foods, while the same stuff will run you about half that at a regular grocery store.

[BunnySlippers]

[Dr. Sivana]

I wouldn’t shop at Whole Foods (heck, even Stop and Shop is too expensive. We went to Shaws when I lived in CT.) However, the CEO of Whole Foods went public and LOUD against Obamacare and took lots of flak from those twig crunchers as a result. So, I don’t shop there,but I have nothing bad to say about them.

[Orange1998]

Sad that Texas even has to consider it part of

Most of the Yuppie residents are past UT students who were liberalized by the professors.

[Kenny Bunk]

My daughter says the name of the chain should be changed to
Whole Pay Check

However, the shoppers at Trader Joe's look even farther Left to me than the demo-dweebs who infest Whole Foods. Fewer Saabs, more Subaru Foresters. (Trader Joe's Wines can be used as Subaru Brake Fluid.)

Ah, The NPR good life in The Green Land of the Mombasa Moonbeam!

Yo, I still NEED to know what's behind the 7-incher hockey stick scar on Kid Kenya's head.

[Orange1998]

Many of them sport body piercing that makes you wonder if they accidentally tripped on a boat during a fishing trip and landed face-first in a tackle box.

This made the who article worth the read. Thanks. LOL

[ChocChipCookie]

:::::sneaking out to remove the LT sticker from the back of the Tahoe:::::

(Lake Tahoe)

[SamAdams76]

The whole point of being conservative is to let people make their own decisions. Yet have opted to ridicule those who have made decisions you don’t like.

Agreed. People do have the right to make their own decisions. And I have the right to ridicule them (as they have the right to ridicule me).

[Miss Conservative]

A friend of mine has a 10 year old Ford that has the oval sticker on it with white letters. It’s an abbreviation of his gated community. Without that sticker the car can be towed. Everyone approved to park in the community has one.

[denydenydeny]

Great essay!

[norraad]

I parked in the shade one spring day with the dog in the car, the dog loves being in the car and wouldn't come out so I left him in there with the windows down(He barks when he wants in or jumps out the window and barks at the door).

The lady across the street (no she doesn't have a Saab, she has a Lexus) called the animal people, I was taking a shower when they knocked on the door, I could see out the window who it was and surmised what went down, so I answered the door naked & wet saying "What!"

People with uniforms and guns are surprisingly taken aback when confronted with angry wet people.

They laid their trip down and I laid my trip down.

"He likes being in the car, I'd like to see you get him out of His car when he doesn't want to come out!"

They hung around for awhile to satisfy themselves the dog was happy and content then left.

[Old Professer]

So he could a funny story that you would actually read.

[who knows what evil?]

They would probably sell the heirloom tomatoes I grow in my garden for $11.99 per pound...hey, it’s “specialty stuff, dude...”

[Graybeard58]

dog bouncing around in the back seat, deciding what supermarket to stop in at

Right there was your first mistake - letting the dog choose the super market.

(Remarks, taken out of context can be humorous.)

[catnipman]

Thanks for the Saturday afternoon entertainment. You’ve pretty much nailed “Whole Paycheck”. There’s one in Boulder, CO and the only difference between yours and this one is the very large percentage of University of Colorado students and professors that make up their clientele.

I can only assume the students must have very wealthy parents if they can afford to shop at Whole Paycheck. (When I went to undergraduate school in Blacksburg, VA, we survived on Kroger Mac ‘N Cheese at 19 cents a box and bone-in chuck at 69 cents a pound, and other assorted staples we cooked from scratch into our own delicious meals.)

[american colleen]

This is great, made me laugh out loud!! And mirrors the experience I had in a Whole Foods in I think it was Medfield, MA. Way overpriced and somehow or other 'they' can spot you a mile away and 'they' know you are an interloper!

The only thing I do like about Whole Foods is the CEO - apparently treats the employees as he treats himself and came out against Obamacare (which is pretty ballsy when you depend on the liberal crowd for most of your business).

I will say that the meats and produce looked great but everything in there is crazy money unless you and your family eat like birds.

[who knows what evil?]

What's the dif btw a Saab and a porcupine?

I have always thought of Saab as an acronym...

'Something An A**h*le Bought'...

[Col Frank Slade]

LOL !!!