Posted on 03/28/2017 2:20:32 PM PDT by drewh
I was there this afternoon. A dollar for a pineapple??!!
Their ahi tuna is so good and they have good prices on wine!
They are talking about partnering with a delivery service too.
Not sure what it would cost as I live outside the delivery area but if it was not unreasonable I could see it becoming very popular especially with the elderly.
I suspect the whole “organic” thing is a crock. At my age, I have gotten used to various additives and growing methods. At 64, why do I need Organic?
Whole Foods is super expensive, too
Whole Paycheck???
Eff em
Amen! Our town’s Aldi opens next month.
WF is pricey to be sure. But they have a huge deli section and you can basically eat for free. By “tasting”.
If I’m going to spend that kind of money, I’d rather go to Fresh Market. Also, they have $2.99 Tuesday specials on organic chicken breasts and ground chuck.
I don’t go into Whole Foods often, but when I do I feel like I need to take a shower when I get home. The liberal stench is just awful.
Well, that and the fact that most of them have a bar in them where I can have a beer or two while my wife shops. :-)
I wouldn’t say Kroger is in that great shape either and actually Whole Foods is still in better shape with twice the margin while Kroger has collapsing free cash flow. Grocers in general have extremely low margins of 1-3% and so rely on volume plus the fact that they are a negative working capital business (they are paid by the customer before they have to pay the supplier). It’s a very competitive business and it’s not difficult for other chains to copy each other. Whole Foods also has a limited customer base which other stores started to attack from years ago.
I prefer shopping with the Trader Joe’s and Aldi family of stores. Good prices, small stores, enjoy the variety of products they do have, and don’t have to spend long in the store. I have been to Whole Foods a few times and I do have to say the quality of their vegetables and meat are very high. They do offer organic food but real reason people shop there is because of the quality, variety of the food, and the shopping experience.
The most disappointing store is Walmart. I’ve always been a fan due to their selection of non-grocery products and generally low prices but they’re poorly run in general, overstaff rural stores (short lines, I liked this when I lived near one and was very loyal), understaff suburban stores (long lines, better off customers go elsewhere), and they have trouble hiring productive staff.
I was in San Antonio recently and Walmart is absolutely getting killed by HEB. HEB has variety, low prices, and very quick checkout (each lane has cashier and bagger 50% of time and the cashiers are very efficient). Walmart had incredibly inefficient cashiers (HEB cashiers are easily 3 x as efficient and often maybe 6 x). I think the customer experience alone explains while Walmart is failing in San Antonio - their parking lots are dead compared to HEB’s. HEB vs Walmart is a very interesting case.
Yep! I guess I’ll have to fly from Seattle to L.A. to shop at my nearest Aldi Supermarket.
However, at my Saars Marketplace, in Tacoma, we have these prices:
Chicken hindquarters: $.49/LB
Red Ripe On the Vine Tomatoes: $.98/LB
Lip on Boneless Steak: $4.99/LB
Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast: $1.48/LB
Regular Ground Beef (73% Lean): 1.88/LB
Pork Sirloin Chops: $1.18/LB
Crisp & Sweet, Granny Smith or Fuji Apples: $.58/LB
Large Naval Oranges: $.48/LB
Asparagus: 1.48/LB
Pack up that cooler and jump on that airplane. Your savings will pay a good share of the ticket price that you would have saved from Whole Foods. And, you would get to enjoy the Great Northwest.
That is exactly the service Wal*Mart offers. Very convenient.
You could buy from Farmers’ Markets. At least half a dozen are close by me.
Prices are high, the meat area flat out stinks, you can’t find beloved name brands. (No Campbells soup, Premium Saltines, Coke, etc.)
The toilet paper they sell is abysmal and rough as a cob. Some 7th son of a 7th son brand, or something like that.
The frozen pizza is all “uncured” or “Gluten Free”. No Mexican TV dinners except some ersatz frozen Mexican that looks like it came from San Francisco.
The Bread department is surprisingly good and its worth getting a fresh loaf sometimes. Checkout is friendly, but forget a snickers or milky way or zero bar.
You always have a feeling you are the most dangerous person in the store and could defeat everyone there if they all turned on you at once.
“They do not realize most that cancer is the results of DNA copy errors”
Uhmmmm....That’s kind of the -definition- of cancer. That’s like saying most bacterial infections are the result of bacteria rapidly multiplying.
Ain't that the truth!
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I have worked in the food production industry and have grown my own ducks, chickens and vegetables. I was the king of organic and I saw and tasted the results first hand. My eggs always had poop smeared on them. My kids refused to eat them because of that problem; even when I cleaned them in bleach water. They tasted the same as the store bought eggs because our local egg suppliers produce the best tasting eggs in the world.
I know that the processing of non-organic foods is the same as organic foods. There is much robotics that prevents that food worker sneezing on the produce. The difference is the chemicals used to keep the produce from insect infestation. I know from my own experience growing my own vegetables, that insects are a nuisance. Radishes would have grub worms in them, squash would have leaf mites, corn cobs would have some little devil that took out a few rows of kernels and so forth. Imagine the disappointment to cut open a cabbage head and find that grub worm burrowed inside. I still ate it, but I never found one from the grocery. I wonder how many of these Whole Foods customers are finding that grub worm as extra protein in their produce?
Seriously, these organic farmers who avoid insect control, cause the entire area to go out of insect control. Their neighbors have to ward off their insects that blow over to their fields. And, the insecticides they use to control them, get carried by the winds onto the supposed organic crops.
The research is showing these DNA copy errors occur independent of the environment or heredity. The replication process has its own internal inefficiencies that cause the errors.
Well, with progress like that, just imagine how many they'll have in a year.
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