The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
They are good but expensive.
Their deli sandwiches just went up from 7.99 to ten bucks.
You find many of the same products at Vons for dollars less.
There is increasing customer demand for non-GMO options. Whole Foods generally has to rely on niche customers to sustain its pricing model. Offering non-GMO options is a logical play to that base of customers.
The author does not like the fact that they stock homeopathic remedies as well. This fellow does not appear to be a great fan of free choice in general.
I don’t like the nasty look I get when I ask for a paper bag. (apparently I just killed a tree).
I don’t like that they give 5% of their profits “back to the community”. They owe the “community” nothing and that 5% has been added to the price of their goods which costs me.
I don’t like the sea of “Obama” stickers in their parking lot.
I don’t like that 90% of their employees are covered with tattoos and ear gauges.
I don’t go anymore.
Whole Foods.....also know as Whole Pay Check because of their pricing. I get just as good, or better, quality from the gardens I work so hard in every year.
And all it costs me is my time and labor.....
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
They are like politicians who cater to people’s ignorance.
Kinda like complaining that you go Bass Pro Shops for the fishing equipment but you're against guns being sold there.
Odd author.
I gradually stopped shopping there. Some interesting things, some weird things.
But the prices are way too high, the aisles too cramped and the customer base way too earthy-crunchy. I have a suspicion that many of them find deodorant harms the environment.
And I went in there on more than one occasion in coat and tie and got the Donald Sutherland “not one of us” stare from many of the hippie libs.
Just like the Walmart haters. Just don't shop there.
But, now that we are in an era of crony capitalism where people use government to shut down any business they don't like, every business has to be on guard and pay the vig, er, the "donations."
Whole Foods is a master of marketing. They’re displays are hard to resist, and they can charge high prices to the gullible.
Think “enviro kids” cereal. Or was it “eco kids”.
So they won’t sell aspirin??
Aspirin in the Ancient World
Aspirin was first produced 110 years ago, but the natural form, salicylic acid, found in plants (i.e. the willow and myrtle) has been used for thousands of years.
As early as 3000 BC, the ancient Egyptians used willow bark and myrtle to reduce pain and fever
By 30 AD, Greek and Roman physicians suggested the use of willow leaf to treat inflammation.
A Victorian Era Discovery
The natural form of aspirin, salicylic acid, was associated with an awful taste and often induced upset stomachs and vomiting. In 1853, scientist Charles Fredric Gerhardt was the first to prepare ASA by the addition of an acetyl chemical to natural salicylic acid, however this form was said to be unstable.
In 1897, Felix Hoffmann (a young chemist working for Bayer) independently made ASA in a more chemically pure, stable and more palatable form. Hoffman’s father had utilised sodium salicylate for rheumatic pain (to make it easier on the stomach).
Two years later, on March 6, 1899, aspirin was trademarked under the Imperial Office of Berlin.
When war broke out in 1914 the Allies lost their source of aspirin and so they offered large prizes for anyone who could make aspirin. When the war ended the Allies forced the Germans to give up their patent.
* Decent pasta & sauces at very cheap prices.
* Fresh made peanut butter.
* Good selection of produce. Some of it even tastes OK - unlike big box stores' bland, tasteless veggies.
* Fresh bread.
* Draft beer with growlers available.
* Soda without sugar or fake sugar.
* Best selection of snack chips & salsas.
Their stock is tanking. Even lo-info Leftists have caught on that they are being ripped off by WF pricing.
Several years ago there was a Tea Party rally in front of one in Dallas. I went inside to get a drink. Once was enough for me.
I have no reason to go there-the prices at Whole Foods are already high-and since I live over 50 miles from the nearest one, add some gas for my 4x4 to the price.
I follow a natural lifestyle-no processed food, avoid GMO foods, no drugs, only homeopathic remedies-yes I do keep aspirin, too. I know the vegetables I grow are non-GMO, and I can buy grass fed/free range meat and chicken at the locker plant or the grocery store in the nearest town, 20 miles away. There are several companies online that offer organic flour and other grains, and a family owned natural grain mill 100 miles from here. It is all cheaper than Whole Foods, and not in a snooty liberal neighborhood, like they are...
Their Icelandic Sirius 70% dark chocolate is worth a trip to the store for me. I buy several bars each time I go. Nothing else in the store is worth what they charge for it.