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WARREN BUFFETT: 'I don't see smiles on the faces of people at Whole Foods'
Yahoo Finance ^ | May 6,2015 | Rick Wilking/

Posted on 05/07/2015 4:36:26 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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To: PapaBear3625
Yes, but I'm seeing hometown groceries with a few more upscale offerings. Foodies don't require a lot of luxury goods, but Murray's Cheeses are now in Krogers! Foodies will shop less at Whole Foods, but they still need to find DeCecco pasta and a variety of kale.

(Kale! Who would have thought this poverty food, easily grown in fall and spring when it's still freezing…would be emblematic of the Birkenstock bunch?)

41 posted on 05/07/2015 5:47:51 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: bert

Oreos rule!


42 posted on 05/07/2015 5:48:57 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: lormand
organic branded foods are a way of parting fools from their money

That's why I shop by the sources of foods and the ingredients. There are some pure foods bargains out there, but very rarely to those options get labelled "organic".

For people who have more money than time, Whole Foods provides a good way to get healthy foods.

43 posted on 05/07/2015 5:49:06 AM PDT by grania
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To: Mamzelle

My taste buds are regressing in my old age, because I used to like the more pungent varieties of lettuce, but I’ve gotten to where I only really like iceberg and butter (Boston) lettuce. I can stand just a few leaves of Romaine and the like, and some spinach, but not much. It’s too bad that I can’t grow the two I like best, where I live.

My niece just told me that she read that people’s taste buds go through seven year cycles. I need to verify that, out of curiosity.


44 posted on 05/07/2015 5:52:37 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Reno89519

I’m not sure if you live that much longer eating “whole foods” but it sure seems like it.


45 posted on 05/07/2015 5:52:43 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: Mamzelle

I’m not really a cookie fan (nor cake, nor sweets in general), but Walmart had some store brand or off-brand of cookie which was salted caramel inside two very thin waffle-style cookies. Those were pretty good (I love salted caramel stuff). I got them a couple of years ago, haven’t seen them again, but I haven’t looked very hard for them either. Don’t need any more bad habits!


46 posted on 05/07/2015 5:55:37 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: struggle

Whole Foods is one of my favorites. I guess that makes me a liberal hippie with a drug problem. The fact that I also like Chick-fil-a makes me a right-wing, religious nut. I’m so confused...


47 posted on 05/07/2015 5:56:20 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the '17th amendment.)
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To: USARightSide

I think you meant to type “liable” (likely to do or to be something:), not “libel” (a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation.)


48 posted on 05/07/2015 5:59:57 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: bert
Kraft does not make Oreos Oreos are made by Mondelēz International

Which was spun off from Kraft a few years ago.

49 posted on 05/07/2015 6:04:30 AM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: antidisestablishment

That’s why crony capitalists love Democrats. Prop up their investments so they have a large bank account then parlay that into assets bought for pennies on the dollar when their policies cause collapse.

It’s little wonder the most egregious like Buffet and Soros are treated as saints by lefties. The truth would be too jarring to their psyches.


50 posted on 05/07/2015 6:10:49 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: grania

Maybe Buffett is talking down the price so he can buy.


51 posted on 05/07/2015 6:13:38 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: Russ

Whole Foods in business to make a profit? Oh, the agony.


52 posted on 05/07/2015 6:22:32 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Hojczyk
This is a hilarious read: America’s Angriest Store - How Whole Foods Attracts Complete S***heads
53 posted on 05/07/2015 6:22:47 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Mamzelle
Yes, but I'm seeing hometown groceries with a few more upscale offerings. Foodies don't require a lot of luxury goods, but Murray's Cheeses are now in Krogers!

I have a variety of places to shop at on my way home from work. Costco has USDA Prime beef, and excellent tuna steaks. I pass by a produce place that has lots of good veggies for low prices. You just have to know where to find them.

54 posted on 05/07/2015 6:24:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: antidisestablishment

he was instrumental in the housing collapse, and now he has been buying thousands of homes for pennies on the dollar.

Warren and Charlie do not believe in derivatives so I find it hard to believe they share a role in what government made possible. Loan makers sold their manure to banks who bundled it and sold it off to investors before the fall. All a part of the “affordable housing” myth. A myth not shared by BH or it’s CEO or Management.

You might elaborate on the thousands of houses they are buying and why, when they are in the manufactured housing business.


55 posted on 05/07/2015 6:26:00 AM PDT by wita
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To: PapaBear3625

That’s really the point I was making. Frugal foodies have pet items that they buy at different places. Dececco pasta, for Instance, is not particularly expensive but is hard to find. I like little cans of sliced green olives, and only one store I know has them.


56 posted on 05/07/2015 6:29:02 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Hojczyk

It’s the outrageously high prices.


57 posted on 05/07/2015 6:30:24 AM PDT by uncitizen (I'm Ready for Teddy!)
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To: wita
Did you look up Buffett on the subject of his "charitable" support of abortion? You'll also find the relationship with Gates.
58 posted on 05/07/2015 6:30:40 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle

Thanks I’ll be looking. Didn’t see the Fox story.


59 posted on 05/07/2015 6:32:55 AM PDT by wita
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To: wita
Buffett is just a hokey-hometown version of George Soros, a hater of America and a despicable human being, high on his own power and neck-deep in the Culture of Death. He makes a big deal of his downscale eating habits to seem a little more human--to make an image of how owning most of the world hasn't made him crazy. Billionaires don't really want truffles and caviar as much as they want to rule over people, and decide who gets to live and who must die.

And he really ought to pay his secretary a decent wage.

60 posted on 05/07/2015 6:35:57 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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