Posted on 08/19/2014 10:43:58 AM PDT by EveningStar
I have a love-hate relationship with Whole Foods Market. On the one hand, I love their fresh produce, their baked goods, and many other food choices there. On the other hand, they have embraced anti-science positions in the interest of keeping everything "natural."
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Two of the locker plants near here have butcher shops-they sell meat from free range animals, and it is no more expensive than any other meat.
Whole Foods founder and CEO John Mackey would like to revise a previous accusation that Obamacare is a form of socialism.
“It’s more like fascism,” Mackey recently told NPR. “In fascism, the government doesn’t own the means of production, but they do control it — and that’s what’s happening with our health care programs and these reforms.”
The op-ed infuriated Whole Foods’ liberal customer base, Time reported at the time. Some customers boycotted the organic food chain in protest, according to ABC.
Silence!
Hand over the Kitchen Sink cookies and nobody gets hurt!
Bingo!
No evidence at all. In fact, my favorite is when they shut down a Hole Foods, or a Panera Bread because the bean sprouts just gave everyone salmonella or shinghella.
I see it on the news every once in a while and I nearly spit-take my breakfast cereal (cocoa puffs, of course).
So open your own store called Salzberg’s and stock what you like.
1) overpriced
2) pretentious
3) overpriced
4) the smell of body odor and Patchouli were inescapable
5) overpriced
6) I wanted to punch almost everyone there
7) as someone said earlier, too many Obammunist bumper stickers in the parking lot (which was too small), and
8) too many hipsters, which goes along with #4 and #6. Oh yeah, did I mention it's overpriced?
What's with all the "organic" crap, anyway? Everything is organic...as in made up of molecules and atoms. Even Coke, Pepsi, Skittles and GMO corn are organic...but not "organic", in the hipster/CommiLib parlance. Hence #6.
I'll continue to shop at Winco and Wal-Mart, thank you very much.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The one in Kailua has an awesome salad bar and on Wednesdays it is on sale. I think the entire island of Oahu comes out that day.
In the summer of 2008, Obama was campaigning in Iowa. He was trying to act like he felt the pain of the common man when he asked that question. Arugula is elitist lettuce.
I’ve never heard of a “locker plant.” It’s rentable refrigerated storage space?
With stevia. It sweetens the drink but some of the flavors unfortunately taste kind of diet-ish.
But I use it to mix with booze so I don't end up dealing with that problem anyway.
I grow my own sprouts, it is easy, healthy and cheap-all you are doing is germinating seeds of a food item to eat as seedlings. The ones at stores are not fresh or sanitary...
It has refrigerated rentable storage, but since just about everyone has a stand-alone freezer now, they also slaughter animals from their ranches and for other ranchers for a fee, and sell meat from their grass fed animals in the butcher shop on the premises.
Yep. And most major grocery stores and stores like CSV, Walgreens and Rite Aid also have sections devoted to dietary supplements and herbal remedies. Whole Foods is not alone in that.
OK, now I’ve learned something today. Time to go home.
I walk around in the one near my office when I am bored and make fun of people I see and wonder how many would feint if they could see what I was carrying in my Sticky Holster (please no innuendo).
“Yep. And most major grocery stores and stores like CSV, Walgreens and Rite Aid also have sections devoted to dietary supplements and herbal remedies. Whole Foods is not alone in that.”
Yes. And I have to deal with my wife’s Chinese medicine recipes also.
The best cooked chicken anywhere.
$1.29 per pound.
Sprinkle a little on their dry food - no tummy problems.
I conceal-carried while shopping at our local equivalent of Whole Foods, called “EarthFaire”. I thought it would cause a rip in the spacetime-hippy continuum, but it didn’t :-)
That reminds me of something Mr D did a few years ago. He went into a very greenie weenie store that sells exercise clothes etc. and asked where he could find the seal clubs.
I thought the bearded guy behind the counter head’s head was going to explode before he realized he had been scammed.
BTW I shop a Whole Food all the time but I avoid the organic vegetables because they have been fertilized with poop.
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