1st world problems.
More pricing errors?
Maybe some is out to get them
Google the owner.....John Mackey (Mmkay).....a free market capitalist.....libertarian leanings. A bad man for this regime.
As I have developed massive food allergies in my old age, I often frequent the place but can’t stand the hippy/progressive types who shop there.
Whole foods sells a lot of pre-cooked and processed food on their salad, BBQ, Seafood and soup self serve bars, then their are the cooked meats and dinners behind the deli-service counter. That drives up the cost for a lot of customers. You can effectively shop Whole Foods if you avoid the gimmicky stuff and stick to fresh fruits and vegetables and the self dispensary of whole grains and cereals. Sometimes there are great sales on Chicken — which I pick up. The breasts are about 3/4 the size of your hand vs the size and a half found on the hormone fed trisodium phosphate pumped market brands you find in a common grocery store.
Newsflash: almost 100 Million Americans are bot in the workforce. 40 Million are on Food Stamps. $8.00 bags of pasta are not in their immediate future grocery list.
Uh boy. My products were just approved to go into two local Whole Foods, one that will have it’s grand open next month.
Interestingly, a Fresh Thyme will be opening here in about a year.
Wal*Mart.
She basically concluded that shopping at Whole Foods wasn't about eating healthy food...it was about demonstrating one's affluence.
I think she was right.
Meh. We never go there. Ground meat is lousy and Sprouts has better produce. HATE our local- and only, grocery chain. With a passion. Come onnn Aldi’s.
My first encounter with them I discovered they would rather sell you something from an unregulated producer in South American than offer a health food from an US provider that has been in business for more than a 100 years and has an unblimished record.
I like Earth Fare better.
I hate these posts that cheer for businesses to fail. Is anyone forced to shop at Whole Foods? We have a Whole Foods close by. I go sometimes for lunch as their prepared foods are very good. But for bulk shopping it’s Costco and Stop and Shop.
That said, I would certainly never hope a business fails. Not saying you are particularly saying this, but I’m sure many on the thread will.
I enjoy the Whole Foods experience.
Gosh, an overpriced yuppie-infested tofu peddler can’t make a whorehouse profit??? What IS the world coming to?
Hmm, may have to visit one before they go extinct.
I figured is was just a place where the Woodstock crowd ended up at the end of their careers. ‘Paper or Plastic?’ ;)
After Hurricane Ike hit in 2008, most of the supermarket shelves in the area were bare. Whole Foods was the only grocer that was 100% in stock. The one nearest me is always crowded, so I would not celebrate their demise just yet. However, I always feel like I'm a conservative behind enemy lines when I go in there.
I made a nice chunk on options several years ago in their high growth phase. That can’t last forever.