Stick a fork in Whole Foods?

CNNMoney ^ | July 31, 2015 | Paul R. La Monica

[Daffynition]

Whole Foods may be toast. Granted, it's toast made from pricey, gluten-free, organic honey oat bread. But toast nonetheless.

Shares of Whole Foods (WFM) plunged more than 10% Thursday after the high-end natural grocery chain reported sales and profits that missed analysts' forecasts. Its outlook did not impress investors either.

[deport]

With their precious reusable cloth, grocery bags. Cracks me up.

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Well it’s either bring your own or pay for bags at the register.l

[OKSooner]

I don’t mind the hippies who shop there, I can always just ignore them... the ones I have a problem with are the ones running the checkout lines, advertising all their nose rings and stuff. “How ‘bout just some regular people around here?”

[VRWCarea51]

Hmm, may have to visit one before they go extinct.

I figured is was just a place where the Woodstock crowd ended up at the end of their careers. ‘Paper or Plastic?’ ;)

[Twinkie]

I used to go to a fairly large health food store in Nashville several years ago. Then one day, I stopped in there only to find it moved - to fancier digs. So, I went on over there to the new place. After a while, they moved again, clear across town into an even bigger, fancier place. - It was nice, but I live too far away to shop there very much. - Those young (& old) hippies who shop there don’t bother me. My dollar is worth just as much as their dollar - maybe 30 cents. :o)

[Neidermeyer]

Uh boy. My products were just approved to go into two local Whole Foods, one that will have it’s grand open next month.
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Unless you’re in Silicon Valley try getting your product into Aldi , Wmt , A&P and Save-A-Lot ,,, Whole Paycheck can’t cut costs enough to make a difference without turning off the bankster and CEO wives that shop there... It would have been great in the 1980’s when people had careers but not today.

[Neidermeyer]

Last two times I bought fresh fish from WF...I returned it b/c it was NOT fresh.

I don’t mind paying *more* for meat and fish...if the quality is there. Never did, never will.

But I’m giving up on their fish dept.
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My city has a large Vietnamese population and their markets have the freshest and cheapest fish in the city.. I think their supplier(s) are relatives that commercial fish.

[Neidermeyer]

I’ve seen a lot of new dhole foods opening in different cities.
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Desperation move ,, sales down? , revenue per location down? , open more stores in a bid to at least keep the total revenue number up even if profits fall.

[BunnySlippers]

They have two types of stores. Whole Foods and 365. M neighborhood is getting one of the first 365s which is a low cost Whole Foods.

Yip!

[Ditter]

I shop at WF often. In my old age I have developed sensitives to food chemicals that regular grocery stores food is full of. I can shop much quicker at WF because I don’t have to read labels. It is a good store, we have a new one near to my house.

[Ditter]

I bought 85% lean hamburger meat and made a meatloaf that my husband said was the best one he has ever tasted! Got the meat at WF.

[CodeToad]

“1st world problems.”

Exactly. Hungry people don’t differentiate dates on olive barrels.

[CodeToad]

” I have developed sensitives to food chemicals that regular grocery stores food is full of. I can shop much quicker at WF because I don’t have to read labels.”

That makes no sense. If you are not reading labels then how do you know what is in it? How do you know your sensitivities to anything in particular? You sound like an advertisement for Whole Paycheck.

[DAC21]

“But I’m giving up on their fish dept.”

In So Cal there is an Asian chain called 99 market. The one in Chino Hills draws in the Diamond Bar and surrounding Asian contingent. Very fresh seafood, as in live tanks of Lobster, catfish, Talapia. Multile tanks of muscles and clams. Great place to shop for that seafood linguine dinner. Just the produce section can keep you entertained for an hour looking at all the oddball fruits and veggies that you have never seen before.

[left that other site]

My First Thought.

[Ditter]

After seeing 4 or 5 doctors about the reactions I was having, I kept a food diary and discovered what was causing my problem. WF doesn’t food doesn’t have the chemicals (flavor enhancers) that I have been found to have a reaction to. I know because I checked them out. I shop at other stores as well and have to read labels.

I won’t tell you what you sound like.

[Ditter]

We buy our fish and shrimp from a great Vietnamese fish market too. Owner is a great guy, very pro American and his whole family works in his shop. Fountain View Fish Market for any of you in Houston.

[Sans-Culotte]

I stop by Whole Foods for unusual items, but they are not my regular grocery store. I occasionally get one of their dry-aged rib-eye steaks, which are superb when cooked medium rare on the grill. I get little odds and ends there like dry soybeans, crystallized ginger, etc. Sometimes they have some heirloom tomatoes and sometimes their asparagus is good (anything other than pencil-thin asparagus is getting to be hard to find).

After Hurricane Ike hit in 2008, most of the supermarket shelves in the area were bare. Whole Foods was the only grocer that was 100% in stock. The one nearest me is always crowded, so I would not celebrate their demise just yet. However, I always feel like I'm a conservative behind enemy lines when I go in there.

[Ditter]

Going into grocery stores after Ike was certainly weird.

[CPT Clay]

Thank you for you service, and Welcome Home.

[KGeorge]

I can believe it. You are so lucky to live in Houston, Ditter. It’s a different food world. We buy 90% ground sirloin for the dogs & *if* we get lucky, I swipe some for us & buy more. I confess I’m just real picky about fat/ gristle in meat.