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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Great comment — this is why FR is such a good read!
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.
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
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?
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.
You obviously have never read the Q Anon thread.
I have never even seen a Whole Foods store -- except on South Park.
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.
“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.
I go to Whore Foods once per year for the entertainment value.
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.
Never been to a Whole Foods.. no reason to.
“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.
Fun read. I have never been in hole foods, and will never be in hole foods.
I avoid such things by the simple expedient of never entering a "Whole Foods" store ...
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Ditto that.
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.
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