You should get one of these for your car for the next time you go there:
Posted on 07/31/2010 12:28:04 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Yes! That was the CEO of Whole Foods, and it does make me feel even better for choosing it as our main store.
Health is one of the reasons home gardening is growing expotentially...you know where your food comes from, and it is a heck of a lot cheaper than Whole Foods; or any other store, for that matter...
Talking about not being able to tell the men from the women....with redneck women you don’t have that problem.
“She had ‘disco sucks’ on the front of tee shirt”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiKUY261Cuo&feature=related
No. We get it from our paychecks, it takes a huge chunk out of them, and we have made the decision to forgo other treats in life so that we might eat healthy food, because it ends up making a difference, and it's damn tasty.
(Some) FReepers can be a very condescending lot.
My tongue-in-cheek article was more about the pretensions of liberals than the Whole Food store itself. I’m with you on the natural foods, been eating that way for years (and if you shop carefully, you can find a lot of wholesome foods at the regular stores for a lot less money).
I agree. But in the city you can’t grow everything. A small garden won’t cover a large family’s needs, but it’s fun for herbs and tomatoes.
It was actually in the Framingham area but I’m very familiar with the Bedford location. I also worked across the street from it (175 Great Road) at the time of 9/11. We must have crossed paths!
OK; I agree that I often feel that if the clerks I’ve befriended over the years knew how I voted, they’d overcharge me! But they are nice kids. I just don’t discuss politics with them.
The store where I shop is refreshing because the shoppers are very multi-everything. Families, elderly, all races, AND the young yuppies. But I’ve been to the store in West L.A. and seen my share of super-yupsters, and it is really sickening. Especially all the facelifts, and skinny 70-year-olds in leggings shopping next to the bubble-boobed young women that the 70 ladies’ husbands are sleeping with... Glad my store has a mixed clientele.
Oh, and I love TJ’s too. :)
"Let the great unwashed who would allow such pedestrian products into their homes shop at the Stop & Shop (or Wal-Mart). That seems to be the general attitude at the Whole Foods, anyhow." ~ sounds like the one with the attitude problem is you! I meet very pleasant people at Whole Foods. Glad you've decided not to shop there!
I’ve read on FR not too long ago that the owner of WF is a conservative. Can’t remember which particular issue it was (0thugga in general? Hellth Care???) but he is not a liberal.
I am a vegetarian who eats mostly (as much as I can afford cheaply) organic foods. Conservatives do not have to eat meat and/or junk food in order to have conservative values.
Get story telling, LOL.
As to some of the touchy replies you’ve generated, I have this for you:
“May those who love us, love us; and those who don’t love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn’t turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we’ll know them by their limping.”
Oops, GREAT story telling.
“When you’ve got a few extra bucks, you will treat yourself to a little something at Whole Foods.”
Exactly, only a dingdong would spend all of their money at WF. It’s a great place to pick up specialized items. The berry chantilly is a great reason to visit, though expensive.
Agree to all your points. Here in JAX there is only Whole Foods and small local store called Native Sun if you want to shop organic/all natural. Wal-mart has next to nothing for organics or all natural. The employees at Whole Foods are clean, decently dressed (as well as the customers), pleasant and smiling which is more than I can say for some of the less “pretentious” grocery stores.
I for one salute these capitalist entrepreneurs for providing a place to shop for irritating snobby "greener-than-thou" liberals. That means less of them in regular grocery stores. It also separates them from a lot of green they might otherwise donate to un-American causes.
Yes, it was Whole Foods CEO and founder, John Mackey.
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
I was thinking about this healthfood business the other night - I mean actual food and not supplements. I’ve been to some health food stores where the produce looks shriveled and stunted - like something I might grow. And I’ve been to HF stores where the produce looks like it should be winning prizes at the state fair ... even though the HF store claims that artifical fertilizers, pesticides etc. have NEVER even been in the same zip code as their lettuce, tomatoes, squash etc.
Does anyone know if this is true? Has John Stossel or someone actually back tracked on some of these fruits and veggies in search of their provenance?
The reason I ask is if the HF suppliers are getting those kind of results without paying extra for fertilizers, pesticides etc. why would the big commercial growers ever bother with using fertilizers, pesticides etc.?
Something seems off. I mean I’m sure they could claim that every apple and potato has been bottle fed and raised by hand in a green house attached to the main house etc. and hence justify their higher prices but does anyone without a horse in the race actually know that?
And am I the only one who thinks that organic strawberries taste like their namesake - straw? I could be influenced by the taste/memory of the 5 acre strawberry patch we had when I was a kid but today’s organic versions are definitely off.
So typical and at times hilarious. Well done. I sometimes drop in when I’m driving through La Jolla (the only place I can go and see a movie without a car chase) to get a fresh sandwich or such for lunch. They do have good soup. I would use your story to populate the scene.
Exactly!
And when I compare costs at Whole Foods with other places, it is not that much more expensive. The meat quality is higher and so the amount of meat you need to buy is reduced because there is less waste. Great selections of under $10/bottle wine. Where the bill runs up is buying all the things that you cannot get elsewhere.
It is one of the few things in my life where I feel that i am actually engaged in a free market transaction, where I am free to make the purchase or refrain from making the purchase as I choose, and not as the government chooses, or as some rent seeking banking system bureaucrat chooses - extracting a fee for a service that I never wanted and would never choose to pay for.
You should get one of these for your car for the next time you go there:
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