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Whole Foods Quackery
Above the Market ^ | 04/29/2014

Posted on 04/29/2014 8:03:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: RedStateRocker
For my body, nothing goes into it that I don’t know ever last detail of how and where it was made

Bingo! But even at a Farmer's Market, how do you know they are telling the truth?

21 posted on 04/29/2014 8:27:08 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Not here. The organic sticker is almost a license to steal in my area.


22 posted on 04/29/2014 8:27:23 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Seems that if you slap an organic sticker on something that gives you the right to double or triple the price.

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Bingo! A simple sticker boosts profits. It no wonder that their share price is up about 12-fold since its November 2008.

That’s a business model you have to love. ;)


23 posted on 04/29/2014 8:27:23 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

I love Whole Foods. Yes, it’s a bit expensive for me now that I’m on a fixed income, but once in a great while I will treat myself. The Whole Foods in my area has some really fresh produce, unlike some of the local supermarkets where fruit and vegetables lay around for days and weeks. And this particular store is perpetually crowded, even at 10 at night. It does a brisk business. Can’t fault Whole Foods for that.


24 posted on 04/29/2014 8:28:10 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: dead
Their customer base leans very left

And what about the staff there?! The one I very rarely go to has staff with multiple piercings, ugly tattoos, and "paraphernalia" dangling from their ears and noses that make you think they're from deepest Africa or the Amazon jungle.
25 posted on 04/29/2014 8:29:09 AM PDT by plsvn
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To: FatherofFive

There are limits, but also having lived in the same house for 45 of my 52 years, I can say I know this area well. Very well. I could take you to over half of the farms that sell there on a bike ride.

Yeah, I sometimes spend 5,6 hours and $75 cooking dinner for just my wife and myself, maybe 6-8 courses, two bottles of wine, two Verdi operas or one by Wagner. Other people would spend the same money, time and intoxicants going to a football game, concert or taking the family camping. Since I live in an incredible area for food I don’t even think of Whole Foods as being particularly ‘upscale’ or special, more like the bottom of acceptable quality; but then I try to reverse engineer entire meals from French Laundry the way I figure out bass and guitar parts from King Crimson :-)


26 posted on 04/29/2014 8:34:46 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: SeekAndFind
...overpriced groceries with multiple claimed but unsubstantiated benefits, phony health remedies, and the oxymoronic concept of “healthy indulgence.”

I've found some organic veggies & fruits to taste better than non-organic. Of course, the same is mostly true when I buy from a farmer's market, too.

Also, I've been cutting down on processed foods with endless ingredients, preservatives & massive amounts of unnecessary sugar. Whole Foods helps with that.

I couldn't care less about what the other shoppers & employees think, wear, etc.

27 posted on 04/29/2014 8:36:24 AM PDT by gdani (Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
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To: SeekAndFind
“There’s a lesson in the Whole Foods brand that I think carries a great example for my organization and possibly yours as well: The customers are not always right and, more importantly, they sometimes wants [sic] to be told what’s best for them and to have harmful options taken away from within their grasp.” Unfortunately, what customers are told is all too frequently in error and obviously bad for them, as Whole Foods so aptly demonstrates.

PFL

28 posted on 04/29/2014 8:44:37 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: SeekAndFind
There is no such thing as non-natural food

There are however highly processed 'foods' such as HFCS which have no food value and which are arguably poisonous.

There is also modern wheat. For all of its benefits as a crop it is no longer the 'staff of life' - modern dwarf-wheat processed into white flour is responsible for chronic digestive and inflammatory illnesses.

29 posted on 04/29/2014 8:44:40 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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To: RedStateRocker
Yeah, I sometimes spend 5,6 hours and $75 cooking dinner for just my wife and myself,

Time & treasure well spent. When I make bolognese sauce it is a 7 hour deal. Usually takes 2 bottles of wine - not counting the one in the sauce! I make my own sausage. I don't understand how people can go to McDonalds for 'food'

But knowing the source of foods is so critical.

30 posted on 04/29/2014 8:45:09 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Da Coyote
I have no quarrel with Whole Foods

I wish we had one around here. They have a great variety of pure foods, and are very concerned about freshness of their products. For breads, cheeses and a quality salad bar, the regular grocery stores don't come close. Not for everything, but for some things, Whole Foods meets an important need.

31 posted on 04/29/2014 8:50:11 AM PDT by grania
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To: SeekAndFind
Despite broad scientific consensus that genetically modified food...

That was as far as I needed to go in order to know that that guy isn't credible. Go peddle that nonsense with the global warming idiots where science is done by consensus at government agencies and government approved schools.

If people want to eat food from plants soaked in Roundup, I will fight for their right to do so. I just don't expect to hear any static from them if I don't.

32 posted on 04/29/2014 8:50:36 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: agere_contra
modern dwarf-wheat processed into white flour is responsible for chronic digestive and inflammatory illnesses

I believe that grains cause the scaring of the arteries that result in cholesterol buildup and subsequent heart disease. I have cut grains out of my diet. No Grains. No Sugar. No processed foods. Eat only foods that come without a list of ingredients.

And when I say no, I really mean except on rare occasion. I truly enjoy a fine chocolate and an occasional piece of bread. But I dropped 45 lbs and 4 inches of belly fat with my diet.

33 posted on 04/29/2014 8:55:23 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have switched over to Whole Foods recently.

The EBT crowd has taken over my local supermarkets and it is hard to watch as the SNAP cards come out for carts of groceries that I have to pay for.

The pay point even has an EBT designation now along with debit card, credit card, etc. That was the breaking point for me.

I haven’t seen an EBT card in Whole Foods yet.

Yes, it’s expensive, but worth the price IMO, and my car hasn’t been broken into as cars have at my old supermarket.


34 posted on 04/29/2014 9:07:49 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (The dogs bark; the caravan moves on!)
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To: RedStateRocker
the author is free to think ‘silly’ what they want to, just as I am free to pretty much only eat locally grown, organic food from within a 25 mile radius and use personal care products that cost as much as a tank of gas for my Chevy V8 For my body, nothing goes into it that I don’t know ever last detail of how and where it was made, other people are perfectly happy eating any old crap and spend as much on things like kids, TV, cell phones or movies as I do on gourmet cooking :-) But no kids, no debts and two houses paid for, Whole Paycheck, as I call it, is pretty much the only place I shop besides the farmer’s markets and the CSA boxes (Community Supported Agriculture). Freedom is wonderful

hear, hear! i love your post! i am very much the same way... i like Whole Foods for many reasons... if i were to add anything to my tagline, i would add that i spend money on excellent ingredients... i love to cook, i love to feed my friends and family and i care very much about what i put into my body--my temple... and i love having the freedom to spend my money on such things :)

35 posted on 04/29/2014 9:08:58 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Starboard

It reminds me of the 80’s yuppies who just HAD TO move into a downtown loft and shop at the swank stores and grocery outlets in the area.

Really? I mean, I pay less for MORE square footage, I can see the stars at night (without a city-wide blackout) and my produce is mostly from a LOCAL farmer’s market (if not from my own garden...when I have the time to put one out)! I get fresh raw milk not 8 miles from my house and, although I like most of my neighbors, their doors are all more than 150’ from mine (and personally, I feel that is still too close)!

But, hey, they just HAD to have that up-n-coming lifestyle. Whereas, most people that I have met who grew up in that type of environment, are BEGGING to get to at least the suburbs and some even clamor for the rural life!


36 posted on 04/29/2014 9:12:27 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: 9YearLurker
Probiotics are gaining respect in the medical world, and they are of significant value once a course of antibiotics has disrupted the healthy yeasts and bacteria in the digestive system.

This point stuck in my craw too. I came back from a vacation last year with severe food poisoning, my cousin, who was with me on the trip, ended up hospitalized. (we were in Vancouver, BTW). I thought my insides were turning inside and out it was so bad.

I finally went to my doctor about 2 weeks later because I still felt terrible. She said my ribs had been thrown out of alignment from the "reversal of fortune" -- she also suggested I take a probiotic and a few tablespoons of Gatorade mixed with water to replace what I'd lost from the complete purging of my intestinal tract. I'd never even heard of probiotics at that time.

I took her advice and with a day felt 100% better and have sworn by probiotics ever since (not Gatorade, though, doc told me it should never be drunk full strength and even then only by athletes who sweat a lot. I can't stand the taste of the stuff so it's not a problem.

Yes, the free market IS wonderful: If you don't like Whole Foods, don't shop there. What could be easier??

37 posted on 04/29/2014 9:18:11 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (The dogs bark; the caravan moves on!)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
You can save much more shopping at Wal-Mart.

as far as grocery shopping, i shop at Wal-Mart for only certain grocery items, like Chobani or Fage plain Greek yogurt, Gold Peak unsweetened iced tea and Rex-Goliath cabernet... going to gourmet markets and farmers markets is more like an event for me that i enjoy... much like someone would enjoy getting mani-pedis, facials or massages...

38 posted on 04/29/2014 9:18:40 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: FatherofFive

Sounds like the Atkins Diet to me, which is low carb.

I gave my brother a copy of the last Atkins book for Christmas one year (he acted a bit insulted but as he is about 60 or more lbs. overweight with high blood pressure and sleep apnea, I am VERY concerned). The low-carb diet works wonders for me.

Next time I saw my brother, about 2 months later, he was about 45 lbs. lighter (mostly from losing fluid, his doctor told him, but that is great too)— AND, he was off his high blood pressure meds. He also said he wasn’t falling asleep while driving like he used to and had TONS more energy.

His doc told him he didn’t agree with the low carb diets but to keep up with whatever he was doing because it was WORKING.


39 posted on 04/29/2014 9:22:59 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (The dogs bark; the caravan moves on!)
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To: plsvn
And what about the staff there?!

the ones i have shopped at have very happy employees... they all seem to love working for Whole Foods... to me, it is evident...

40 posted on 04/29/2014 9:23:43 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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