Posted on 09/24/2014 6:35:56 AM PDT by C19fan
It's no secret that Whole Foods isn't the most cost-friendly of grocery stores, but a new survey shows just how much more customers pay at the natural food retailer compared to other regional supermarkets. New York investment firm Wolfe Research recently did a study, comparing baskets of groceries at the upscale organic market to other stores across the nation and confirmed that tags at Whole Foods are through the roof. In one instance, Wolfe totaled 60-72 items at Whole Foods and then compared them to prices for the same exact products at Houston's HEB, a Mariano's grocery store in Chicago, and a Wegmans market in Washington, DC.
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LOL. But I am beginning to think that the headache I had last week was due to too much goopton in my food.
Whole Foods leans right. Can’t have that.
Only Leftists know food. Right??
Thanks for that post. I’m old enough to be able to picture Arthur Godfrey relating that. Question is, why are people so gullible? I’m not that smart, but I do at least spend some time thinking about things I’m told.
On the plus side, it's getting much easier to find pure foods. Five years ago there weren't many foods that were okay to eat.
I bought a Smith an Wesson jap knockoff 1100 @ HEB in Corpus back in 82
100 bucks
Off SPID
Great store
Im going to Whole Hipsters right now for range breasts
And a local candle
Special meats....cheese counter....a few things
Its full of tards...
Fresh Market is mo better
Or publix
Or hairy teaty
It’s a question of knowing which Whole Food products to purchase at a lower price, or needing a particular product. I shop at Aldi’s, Walmart, and Whole Foods. It depends on what I need.
W.F. Bulk Quick Oats at $1.19 a pound is an acceptable price. If you buy the entire 50 pound sack you get another 10% off. Buy it and split it with another family, or do long term storage. 365 brand bulk Feta Cheese is $6.99 a pound. You could buy 4 ounces of crumbled feta at the local grocer for $3.50. The 365 is cheaper.
If you absolutely need quality, W.F. bakery bread is better than most store bought, and their fish they sell is first rate. Then, of course, there are the women you meet in the aisles....
I must disagree with you on that. Fresh Market is an awful store, the ground beef had bone fragments in it and the vegetables were half rotten. I go there for the fresh flowers but they aren’t going to sell me any more food. They have had their 3 chances to get it right.
I like Whole Foods and shop there a fair amount.
Yep. Didn’t their CEO publicly criticize 0bolaCare? That’s a business no-no, in this day and age, evidently.
I shop WF for bulk grains, cheeses, ½ & ½ and supplements. They run good specials on most things I buy there. You just have to look at their online newsletter and coupons, before you go.
HEB has a better meat selection, than most (Randall’s, Kroger, etc.) Their CEO, HE Butts, is an amnesty pusher :(
It pays to be an educated shopper. And in the DC example, the differences were about 10%.
I'm not much for buying "organic", but I know that HEB isn't cheap on everything either (they have a rack full of "designer" spaghetti sauce that will cost you $8 a bottle if you want it. Whole Foods' own brand(organic or non-organic) will run somewhere between $3-4. HEB's store brand runs $4-5.
I cite HEB because that's who they compared against and who I'm familiar with. People are free to shop wherever they think they are getting a "good deal".
Aldi milk has no hormones or junk and it’s cheaper than any place else.
I’m halfway through Alan Abel’s early 70s book and it’s funny, he runs into newsmen who KNOW him from previous gags (like SINA, the Society against Indecent Naked Animals, I got that wrong, but it’s the concept). They recognize him and he claims he was just the hired spokesman who got caught up in defending their agenda while he’s selling them some new hoax news item.
Hmm. . . you don’t live anywhere near the west side of Houston, do you? Sounds like a good place to shop and I prefer to give my money to local businesses.
You don’t necessarily need to avoid gluten, unless you suffer from celiac or other problems. What’s bad for some is not bad for others.
Spinach sells for 3 bucks for a rather small bag at the local grocery. Red bell peppers cost a little less than 2 bucks a piece.
My bell peppers I grew from seeds saved last year and they are easily grown indoors in front of a window. The spinach cost about a buck, and I grow it all year too.
I don't know why more people aren't gardening, since the prices of food are going up so quickly.
It’s just pointless to talk to me about “HEB.” I’m here in the northeast and it doesn’t exist. In Manhattan it’s next to Trader Joe’s which has some very good prices.
exactly. The reason more people aren’t gardening is, culture. They were raised on Vons, Ralphs, Albertons, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, etc. The concept of them spending 1 hour each day in their front or back yards gardening rather than mowing the lawns (A total waste) or playing their video games (An addiction of teenagers to the early 40’s crowd). I lined my property with apple trees, and have planted my winter garden already. I am making my greenhouse out of the framing of a 10x20 car cover i got for free off craigslist. It’s lined on the bottom with cement blocks (Another free item from craigslist) and I’m building a potty shed/grow room out of free pallets. I’m repurposing many materials, saving money and reducing costs, and eating healthy.
But it is a very good shop, fourth generation is running it. A gourmet food store started long before they were trendy.
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