Posted on 09/21/2011 11:20:06 AM PDT by Daffynition
I live a block away from this WF.
I used to go there until Trader Joe’s opened on 72nd/Broadway.
One time, I bought some fresh looking ground beef. When I got home, I was about to make a burger. I cut into the meat to reveal that the butchers at Whole Foods has wrapped fresh pink meat around fetid, rotting, old brown meat. It was vile. Never have shopped there again.
Oddly, I never notice anything about the other customers at all, because I am so mesmerized by the gorgeousness of the produce, seafood, cheese, bread and desserts. They also have beautiful plants and flowers in the produce area.
Marketing really is an art.
I’m going to go against prevailing sentiment here.
Advertising, capitalism...all good with me!
The point of the article was how easy it was to manipulate people and “creating” need, where none *might have* previously existed.
This guy, Derren Brown does some pretty amazing stuff along those lines frequently. Of course, the manipulated feel that they wanted that item in the first place, but he reviews how he plants suggestions (using manipulative tools such as NLP etc.).
In the hands of skilled practitioners, manipulators can do remarkable things...and Daffy, you mentioned it in your opening comment. This DOES have political implications. Do you think O and his “team” are NOT using these techniques?
Better think again folks.
I say
being AWARE of the devious ways manipulation is attempted reduces its effects, and that’s a GOOD thing.
Cheers!
If you buy meat in a plastic dished tray, the air inside the container is carbon monoxide. The CO keeps the outside surface of the meat pink for extended periods.
Stew Leonard’s is the perfect example of *sell the sizzle, not the steak.* It’s cute if you are 8 y/o. Stew has used smart marketing techniques since its inception in the 20’s when they were primarily a dairy. The flagship store in Norwalk is a goldmine.... “the greatest sales per unit area of any single food store in the United States.”
Our WF *claims* to grind the hb every 15 minutes; it’s about the only thing I buy there ..sorry your experience is otherwise.
I grew up on shopping with a butcher....since I moved, finding fresh, fresh meat, cut to order is a challenge to say the least.
Winning!
Is that even legal?
I have a beef about hamburger in Los Angeles. About 3 years ago many markets stopped grinding fresh “ground sirloin”, my favorite. It was “extruded” at a remote locale!
To my surprise, WF does not carry ground sirloin!
Luckily, this has been sorted out as now most markets now carry ground sirloin, but not WF.
At $125 million, yes, apparently.
I am familiar with this, however this was clearly not that. You could peel the good meat off the bad.
Whole Paycheck is the ONLY major food chain that stocks wild caught AMERICAN seafood and locally-grown produce. All I see at Wally World is farm raised fish from Malaysia and China and bruised produce.
I’ve never shopped for food at Walmart. We are fortunate to live on the east coast, where seafood is fresh and for the most part, reasonably priced. One fish we do not eat is tilapia, most of which is farm raised in China.
“I love Whole Foods.”
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I have never been in their stores.
I assumed they were all about that overpriced, poorer quality “organic” nonsense.
Perhaps I assumed wrong.....
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