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Why Whole Foods Is America’s Angriest Store
Observer ^ | • 05/01/15 12:23pm | Nils Parker

Posted on 11/04/2018 9:20:10 PM PST by conservative98

The problem with Whole Foods is their regular customers. They are, across the board, across the country, useless, ignorant, and miserable. They’re worse than miserable, they’re angry. They are quite literally the opposite of every Whole Foods employee I’ve ever encountered. Walk through any store any time of day—but especially 5:30pm on a weekday or Saturday afternoon during football season—and invariably you will encounter a sneering, disdainful horde of hipster Zombies and entitled 1%ers.

They stand in the middle of the aisles, blocking passage of any other cart, staring intently at the selection asking themselves that critical question: which one of these olive oils makes me seem coolest and most socially conscious, while also making the raw vegetable salad I’m preparing for the monthly condo board meeting seem most rustic and artisanal?

If you are a normal human being, when you come upon a person like this in the aisle you clear your throat or say excuse me, hoping against hope that they catch your drift. They don’t. In fact, they are disgusted by your very existence. The idea that you would violate their personal shopping space—which seems to be the entire store—or deign to request anything of them is so far beyond the pale that most times all they can muster is an “Ugh!”

Over the years I have tried everything to remain civil to these people, but nothing has worked, so I’ve stopped trying. Instead, I walk over to their cart and

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To: Rockingham

The test I described WAS for “non-celiac gluten sensitivity. (NCGS)” Here’s what really happens:

As you quit being a child, sugar and a lack of fiber cause irregular bowel movements (which actually PREVENT colon cancer) and IBS. With the hysteria about NCGS, people stop eating traditional pasta and sugar and start eating fiber. They cure their IBS and get more regular and say “OMG! I had Celiac’s disease!” or “I had Gluten senstivity!”

Bull. Gluten is good for you. And for half of these hippies, it’s the only real protein they get. Cut out their protein, and they get weak-minded and subservient. Maybe its because hunters and gatherers needed to be less aggressive than hunters. I don’t know why, though. But I do know that every society that wanted subservient, mindless peasants cut out their protein, from King John who banned hunting to the Maoist Chinese who said eating animals was decadent, to Adolf Hitler who promoted veganism. If you recall, even in Oliver Twist, the orphanage riot began with a nice, new lady who gave the orphans meat.

And that’s why this Gluten-free epidemic occurs in the same strains of affluenza as the crusade against meat.


141 posted on 11/05/2018 8:37:27 AM PST by dangus ("The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops" -- St. Athanasius)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

That is true

I can remember when that Portuguese soap I favor called Bañho ..bath.....used to be cheap at Maxx

Now it’s hard to find

But they still have deals


142 posted on 11/05/2018 8:46:15 AM PST by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it wonÂ’t matter what you were)
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To: Jamestown1630

No. The meat doesn’t change. Only the living organisms IN the meat change. But frankly, if you’ve ever eaten repackaged, old meat and realized WHY it was so yuck, you wouldn’t go back to the same store. I’ve bought bright, pink looking hamburger meat that was sticky inside, and stank quickly, turning brownish from the inside out.

Naturally, meat turns brown from the outside in, and a little brown won’t kill you. But irradiation works better on the surface than the inside, so irradiate meat rots from the inside out. When it goes brown, it isn’t just a little exposure to air; it’s rotten nasty.

So that’s how you know if meat has been irradiated: if it doesn’t turn brown after you open the package for a day. (Irradiated meat will turn dark red when it dries on exposure to air, so note that that’s NOT what I mean by brown.)

Some of the chain stores in smaller markets are really bad about recycling near-spoiled meat. They’re used to wringing every cent out of their product before ditching it (the bog-box stores have too much turnover to get like that sometimes). And the old meat managers may not understand that the meat is closer to rotten than they think it is.

Believe me: nothing can take the romantic nostalgia for small businesses like working in a small, franchised supermarket.


143 posted on 11/05/2018 8:46:57 AM PST by dangus ("The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops" -- St. Athanasius)
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To: dangus

Another reason some meat is very pink — sometimes unnaturally so — is the use of bleach. I’m far less certain of the harmlessness of bleached food, especially hamburger and other foods that might absorb more than traces of it.


144 posted on 11/05/2018 8:54:52 AM PST by dangus ("The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops" -- St. Athanasius)
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To: conservative98

Not even on my shopping list .. especially now that you can go ‘Prime’ there.


145 posted on 11/05/2018 9:02:44 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: dangus

The toe knows


146 posted on 11/05/2018 9:10:08 AM PST by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it wonÂ’t matter what you were)
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To: dangus

Thanks for the information.


147 posted on 11/05/2018 9:17:08 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: conservative98
Haven't read thru all the responses so someone may have touched on this ... Whole Foods builds stores only in areas that meet their demographic requirements. Upscale areas, or immediately adjacent. The closest Whole Foods store in western CO (where I live) is in the Aspen area. Another one further east towards Denver in Frisco/Dillon. Several on the front range in the Denver/Boulder area.
148 posted on 11/05/2018 9:17:52 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: BluH2o

The one that recently opened here is in a largely middle-class area; but a few blocks from a big University and its ‘faculty ghetto’.


149 posted on 11/05/2018 9:28:56 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Yaelle

Okay. My belief is that he wants us to love **our fellows** and to fight evil to the bloody end.

I’m not speaking for God either, just trying to understand what He has told us.


150 posted on 11/05/2018 10:02:53 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: SamAdams76

It was Yeltzin! Thanks.


151 posted on 11/05/2018 12:44:04 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: dsc

he wants us to love **our fellows** and to fight evil to the bloody end.


Scary because while Gd must want us to fight for good and against evil, people can define evil their own way and that leads to a lot of bloodshed. Having a different religion is not evil. Being snobby or feeling different politically is not evil. And Gd doesn’t necessarily want us to fight bloody. Sometimes we have to. Sometimes we shouldn’t. I don’t presume to know when, other than defense of innocents, but even that gets confusing when you have to define defense and innocents.


152 posted on 11/05/2018 12:47:29 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
people can define evil their own way and that leads to a lot of bloodshed.

Has led to lots of 'burnings-at-stake', honor-killings, and other creepy stuff, too...
153 posted on 11/05/2018 1:15:10 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: catnipman

Okay, I see, so it’s still somewhat sweet.


154 posted on 11/05/2018 2:04:12 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Chickensoup

”FYI if you are in your late forties you ARE pushing your fifties.”

Yeah, you figured out the joke.


155 posted on 11/05/2018 2:21:00 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: conservative98

Whole Foods is a disgusting place. I hold my nose and maintain a grip on my stomach when I so much as get near the foul place.


156 posted on 11/05/2018 2:23:47 PM PST by Pagoda (Whole Foods = high brow excrement.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“She started to cry. Highlight of my week.”

Between you and her she might have an easier time finding mercy in the afterlife. I have said a few things like that over the years but really regret them now.


157 posted on 11/05/2018 2:29:27 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86

On the other hand, the fact that somebody called her on her petulant behavior might have caused the woman to examine herself and her attitudes.

Everybody gets frustrated and mouths off now and then, and I don’t believe God holds us to every little spout-off. Our spiritual fate probably has more to do with the general tenor of our convictions and intentions.

We’re all here at God’s pleasure, and there’s no telling what part our actions may play in the grand scheme of things. We may momentarily mean something for “evil”, while He means it for good; and unbeknownst, we’re doing His will...


158 posted on 11/05/2018 3:42:27 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

That can happen too but I wouldn’t count on it in advance of making a hurtful comment.

It may well be that God does hold us to “every little spout off”. When people return from a near death experience they often speak of being subjected to a “film strip” of their actions during life. They dread having to see the bad parts of that again when they actually die.


159 posted on 11/05/2018 4:12:21 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86

“Between you and her she might have an easier time finding mercy in the afterlife. I have said a few things like that over the years but really regret them now.”

Sure, it wasn’t my best 30 seconds, but don’t call me a name and expect for me to turn the other cheek.


160 posted on 11/05/2018 4:17:35 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (EVERYONE IS UNIQUE! JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!)
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