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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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KEYWORDS: amazon; anger; hipsters; wholefoods; wholefoodstrolls
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To: dangus

Celiac disease is more common than you think. The National Institutes of Health estimates that as many as one in 141 Americans has celiac disease, with most not even knowing it. In addition, there are other digestive ailments that can make one sensitive to gluten.


61 posted on 11/05/2018 3:43:14 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: hoagy62

Great comment — this is why FR is such a good read!


62 posted on 11/05/2018 3:45:44 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: conservative98

Funny thing, I have similar experiences at Wegmans. Now I avoid shopping there before 7pm and after 8am. We don’t have Whole Foods, but Wegmans has a lot of the same kind of stuff.


63 posted on 11/05/2018 3:46:42 AM PST by Kay Ludlow (Government actions ALWAYS have unintended consequences.)
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To: prophetic

Often wondered how any food cannot be organic. Unless it’s space alien food. If it from this planet it is organic. May not. Be healthy organic but is still organic. Lol


64 posted on 11/05/2018 3:48:15 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: catnipman

Well hang on just a second there. Isn’t the whole point of ketchup to add some sweetness and a bit of tang to the food? Ketchup without the sweetness would just be the vinegar tang along with some subtle tomato flavor. Which actually sounds pretty good now that I think about it, but without the sweetness it’s not really doing what ketchup normally does, right?


65 posted on 11/05/2018 3:52:54 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: conservative98

I went into a Whole Foods in SoCal. Once. The shoppers’ collective attitude was so entitled, and they were so pretentious, that I felt I had stepped into a movie scene.

All Democrats, I assumed. And pissy.


66 posted on 11/05/2018 3:55:04 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Mears
The most BORING article I have ever read on FR.

You obviously have never read the Q Anon thread.

67 posted on 11/05/2018 3:57:07 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Secret Agent Man
never set foot in a whole foods, and god willing, never will.

I have never even seen a Whole Foods store -- except on South Park.

68 posted on 11/05/2018 4:01:40 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: conservative98

This has not matched my experience. I wonder what locations the author has been to. I suspect that what he found was more reflective of the part of the country or other factors.


69 posted on 11/05/2018 4:06:42 AM PST by Stingray51
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To: qaz123

“They can’t run a chainsaw, change their own oil or tire, nor could they install a ceiling fan...”

That may be true, but so what? Why is it wrong if they choose to not learn those skills and want to hire those mundane tasks out to experts? Isn’t everybody better off? Isn’t the free exchange of goods and services the hallmark, the very cornerstone of capitalism and a free society? If those people want to learn more IT skills rather than how to paint the ceiling, it’s THEIR choice.

Would you rather live in a country where the government mandated that everybody do certain manual labor tasks and specialty stores that sell artisanal cheese and bread were outlawed?

I lived in a place like that for almost a year in the 70s. Let me tell you, it isn’t pretty.

I, for one, am very happy to live in a country that encourages people to try different business models, to see if they can make a buck serving unserved market niches. It makes the U.S. dynamic and we all get great choices. If you don’t like something, just take your business elsewhere.


70 posted on 11/05/2018 4:19:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: conservative98

I go to Whore Foods once per year for the entertainment value.


71 posted on 11/05/2018 4:20:51 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: HollyB

I like going there once or twice a month. High quality products.

But it’s our choice, isn’t it? Do I care if you choose to not shop there? Not one bit. Do you care if I go there now and then? Not one bit.

People who get worked up over such trivial things have serious problems themselves.


72 posted on 11/05/2018 4:27:04 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: conservative98

Never been to a Whole Foods.. no reason to.


73 posted on 11/05/2018 4:47:29 AM PST by maddog55
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To: bluejean

“Don’t shop there. You’re supporting psycho libs and all their neuroses.”


I’ve been to 2 Whole Foods. Planned Parenthood volunteers were standing outside of both with clipboards.

Whether WF endorses PP or not, it speaks to the fact that abortionists know their market, and their supporters.


74 posted on 11/05/2018 5:10:20 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: conservative98

Fun read. I have never been in hole foods, and will never be in hole foods.


75 posted on 11/05/2018 5:14:16 AM PST by I want the USA back (It's Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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To: conservative98
I have never observed any of the things the author describes, at any "Whole Foods" store, anywhere.

I avoid such things by the simple expedient of never entering a "Whole Foods" store ...

76 posted on 11/05/2018 5:17:19 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: hoagy62
1) I congratulate you for properly forming the past tense of a certain four-letter verb.

2) Many sodomites view us "breeders" (their term, not mine) with unveiled contempt. Apparently, using our reproductive systems properly is gauche ...

77 posted on 11/05/2018 5:21:44 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: doorgunner69

Ditto that.


78 posted on 11/05/2018 5:24:10 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And your response is, precisely, not my point. They can choose not to learn any skill whatsoever and hire you, me or anyone else to complete those tasks for whatever they’re willing to pay.

Hell, if you’re a good, honest handyman you can carve out a very nice living these days, fixing a door hinge, putting a light switch or hanging a ceiling fan. And, most likely turn work down.

My point is rather to the type of people that the author is talking about. The ones that look down their noses at the guys that do know how to do that stuff. That is all. I’ve dealt with them firsthand and they learn it a very young age and carry that arrogance with them, their entire lives. Just like the guy in Whole Foods that went complaining to the manager because he had to wait in line, because, God forbid other people wanted to buy food, too.


79 posted on 11/05/2018 5:24:58 AM PST by qaz123
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To: conservative98

btt


80 posted on 11/05/2018 5:28:55 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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