Surviving Whole Foods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The woman ate some pretzels without paying because she felt entitled to it? Wow!

Are you really that stupid?
Or have you just never actually been inside of a WF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thoroughly dislike that style of humor; it just isn't funny.

And although I buy all our meat at Whole Foods, there is a weird aura around it. I mean the owner is pretty conservative (libertarian? I don't care enough to find out), which I generally dislike, and used to only open stores in neighborhoods with existing co-ops. They had that whole dust up a few months ago when it was made public that floor staff has to speak fluent English.

I think floor staff should have to speak English everywhere. I almost popped a blood vessel a few years ago trying to find an English speaking employee in 2 different stores. I speak 3 languages, just couldn't find one that matched the ones the employees spoke. Absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thoroughly dislike that style of humor; it just isn't funny.

And although I buy all our meat at Whole Foods, there is a weird aura around it. I mean the owner is pretty conservative (libertarian? I don't care enough to find out), which I generally dislike, and used to only open stores in neighborhoods with existing co-ops. They had that whole dust up a few months ago when it was made public that floor staff has to speak fluent English.

What is wrong with staff speaking fluent English?

Signed an immigrant whose native language is not English

+1 on both counts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The woman ate some pretzels without paying because she felt entitled to it? Wow!

Are you really that stupid?
Or have you just never actually been inside of a WF?

I can't afford WholePaycheck!!

[Anonymous]

Hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This hilarious account pretty much sums up why I despise Whole Foods:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html

My favorite part is the line about how only rich people have dietary restrictions. So true.

Maybe this is due to many lower income families not having the money to spend on appointments with specialists? We are certainly not rich, but WF is the only place I can find some of the things my kid (who has food allergies) can eat. Yes, there are a lot of people who make fun of it, but for some of us it provides a less stressful shopping trip than a regular grocery store.

That section really rubbed me the wrong way too. We buy gluten free because my kid is a celiac. Having financial security and good health insurance didn't make my kid a celiac - it just got her diagnosed early and prevented years of damage.

So all those poorer folk who aren't gluten intolerant? Well some of them are, and are suffering for it, because figuring it out is hard and expensive.

[Anonymous]

I'm glad they are asking them to speak fluent English. I stopped going to the one on River road in Bethesda because of lack of service and everyone chattering away in their native tongue not giving us at the cash registers the time of day. That, and the parking too. Horrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thoroughly dislike that style of humor; it just isn't funny.

And although I buy all our meat at Whole Foods, there is a weird aura around it. I mean the owner is pretty conservative (libertarian? I don't care enough to find out), which I generally dislike, and used to only open stores in neighborhoods with existing co-ops. They had that whole dust up a few months ago when it was made public that floor staff has to speak fluent English.

What is wrong with staff speaking fluent English?

Signed an immigrant whose native language is not English

I didn't say there was anything wrong with it; I just said they had a dust up about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thoroughly dislike that style of humor; it just isn't funny.

And although I buy all our meat at Whole Foods, there is a weird aura around it. I mean the owner is pretty conservative (libertarian? I don't care enough to find out), which I generally dislike, and used to only open stores in neighborhoods with existing co-ops. They had that whole dust up a few months ago when it was made public that floor staff has to speak fluent English.

What style do you find funny? Honest question.

My reading is generally non-fiction, so the only written humorist I enjoy that I can think of is David Sedaris. Otherwise 30 Rock, New Girl, Community, that sort of thing. The author of this piece used a lot of tortured phrases, and incorrectly. I mean, I get what she's going for; Whole Foods can be nightmarish. She just didn't hit what I find goofy about shopping there.

[Anonymous]

Yes, Whole Foods does have a lot of expensive specialty items, but their 365 brand items are competitively priced with national store brand items and do not have any artificial ingredients or preservatives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thoroughly dislike that style of humor; it just isn't funny.

And although I buy all our meat at Whole Foods, there is a weird aura around it. I mean the owner is pretty conservative (libertarian? I don't care enough to find out), which I generally dislike, and used to only open stores in neighborhoods with existing co-ops. They had that whole dust up a few months ago when it was made public that floor staff has to speak fluent English.

What style do you find funny? Honest question.

My reading is generally non-fiction, so the only written humorist I enjoy that I can think of is David Sedaris. Otherwise 30 Rock, New Girl, Community, that sort of thing. The author of this piece used a lot of tortured phrases, and incorrectly. I mean, I get what she's going for; Whole Foods can be nightmarish. She just didn't hit what I find goofy about shopping there.

Identify a couple of phrases she used "incorrectly" and explain what you mean by that characterization.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thoroughly dislike that style of humor; it just isn't funny.

And although I buy all our meat at Whole Foods, there is a weird aura around it. I mean the owner is pretty conservative (libertarian? I don't care enough to find out), which I generally dislike, and used to only open stores in neighborhoods with existing co-ops. They had that whole dust up a few months ago when it was made public that floor staff has to speak fluent English.

What style do you find funny? Honest question.

My reading is generally non-fiction, so the only written humorist I enjoy that I can think of is David Sedaris. Otherwise 30 Rock, New Girl, Community, that sort of thing. The author of this piece used a lot of tortured phrases, and incorrectly. I mean, I get what she's going for; Whole Foods can be nightmarish. She just didn't hit what I find goofy about shopping there.

Identify a couple of phrases she used "incorrectly" and explain what you mean by that characterization.

Wow. You are really taking this seriously.

[Anonymous]

Whole Foods, unfortunately, is a very expensive necessity for people who are unable to consume the usual American diet of high fructose corn syrup and various additives contained in every regular product in the mass-market stores. I would be the first one to ditch whole foods if the food at the regular-priced stores was edible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods, unfortunately, is a very expensive necessity for people who are unable to consume the usual American diet of high fructose corn syrup and various additives contained in every regular product in the mass-market stores. I would be the first one to ditch whole foods if the food at the regular-priced stores was edible.

I find your comment a little dramatic. You realize you can buy "whole foods" at every other regular grocery store too? Just don't buy the packaged crap. Milk, eggs, cheese, produce, meat, rice, beans, etc. are all perfectly edible from mass-market grocery stores. Whole Foods does have quality products, but it's like Starbucks - a lot of what you're paying for is the branding. They work really hard on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This hilarious account pretty much sums up why I despise Whole Foods:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html

My favorite part is the line about how only rich people have dietary restrictions. So true.

Maybe this is due to many lower income families not having the money to spend on appointments with specialists? We are certainly not rich, but WF is the only place I can find some of the things my kid (who has food allergies) can eat. Yes, there are a lot of people who make fun of it, but for some of us it provides a less stressful shopping trip than a regular grocery store.

That section really rubbed me the wrong way too. We buy gluten free because my kid is a celiac. Having financial security and good health insurance didn't make my kid a celiac - it just got her diagnosed early and prevented years of damage.

So all those poorer folk who aren't gluten intolerant? Well some of them are, and are suffering for it, because figuring it out is hard and expensive.

Does everyone whose kid is diagnosed with something immediately go for a consult to have a stick implantd up their ass?